Podcast appearances and mentions of Katherine M Gehl

“Every time I talk to someone about running for office, the first thing they say is, Eric, you have to pick a team,” confides Navy veteran Eric Bronner, COO of the non-partisan group Veterans for All Voters.  “And something didn't sit right with me. So the pump was primed, as my parents would say, for some kind of awakening.” That awakening occurred  listening to a Freakonomics podcast episode with former Purple Principle  guest Katherine Gehl, co-author of The Politics Industry. In that episode, as in our own 2021 interview, Gehl  highlighted the lack of incentives our elected officials have to govern effectively.   To tackle that  problem, Eric and his co-founders are forming a nationwide network of veterans to volunteer on behalf of state level election reform initiatives like opening primaries to the large percentage of registered independent or unaffiliated veterans unable to vote in primary elections and also to advance Final Four or Five voting as detailed in The Politics Industry.  “The last thing we need is more partisanship,” says Bronner who now works full time coordinating  hundreds of volunteers in forty states and counting. “We can have differences of opinion, right? But the system itself is broken.” Tune in to meet three other veterans behind this effort and find out how Bronner and Veterans For All Voters hope to mend the system in this 2024 election cycle and beyond. The Purple Principle is Fluent Knowledge production. Original music by Ryan Adair Rooney.   SHOW NOTES Our Guests Eric Bronner: Bio, X (Twitter) Co-founder and COO of Veterans for All Voters Additional Resources Show Me Integrity  Freakonomics: America's Hidden Duopoly The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter Find us online! X: @purpleprincipl Facebook: @thepurpleprinciplepodcast Instagram: @thepurpleprinciplepodcast Our website: https://bit.ly/2ZCpFaQ Sign up for our newsletter: https://bit.ly/2UfFSja

In this episode of The Optimistic American, Paul Johnson is joined by Save Democracy's Ted Hinderaker and Ted Maxwell from the Arizona Leadership Council. The three discuss what it takes, from a community standpoint, to be successful in the U.S. today, reform work in Arizona, the role of Tucson citizens, and the differences between election systems. Ted Maxwell shares why he believes the existing system isn't working and what he considers important, from a community standpoint, to be successful in the U.S. Paul, Ted Maxwell, and Ted Hinderaker talk about the importance of understanding your role, and how the Tucson government works. Paul shares his experiences running in both a partisan and a nonpartisan primary and goes over the reasons why he believes that elected officials aren't being held accountable. Ted Hinderaker touches upon the characteristics of various election systems – primary, top two, top four, and ranked choice voting – and their effects on society. Paul asks his guests what they believe has led to the activation of the people in Tucson. Ted Maxwell mentions one of the main reasons why, in his opinion, more people are leaning towards becoming independents. Focusing on recruiting candidates that are pragmatic and that are better able to do the job doesn't last, says Ted Hinderaker.     Mentioned in This Episode: optamerican.com Addictive Ideologies: Finding Meaning and Agency When Politics Fail You by Dr Emily Bashah and Hon Paul Johnson The Optimistic American on YouTube Cathy Giessel Save Democracy Ted Hinderaker Southern Arizona Leadership Council (SALC) Ted Maxwell University of Arizona Foundation Center for the Future Arizona Civil Francis Organization The Politics Industry by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter Flinn-Brown Fellowship Program

In this episode of The Optimistic American, Paul Johnson sits down with Katherine Gehl to discuss the profound challenges in the American political system and the real solutions for a system that benefits everyone. Katherine is a business leader, entrepreneur, speaker, and author of The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy. Katherine starts the conversation by describing what inspired her to write a book on political innovation. For Paul, politicians are not necessarily bad people. Often, they are good people in a bad system that provides the wrong incentives. Paul and Katherine agree that a politician's primary goal is to get re-elected. However, we live in a world where there's no connection between solving people's problems and getting re-elected. Katherine explains why we need to change the way people get elected. It's very unfortunate that elections in America today are about choosing the lesser of two evils. Paul describes how parties make it impossible for independent candidates to run for office by forcing independent candidates to collect 10 times the signatures, and making it harder for independent or non-party voters to vote. Katherine reviews the duopoly of political parties. They no longer serve their customers' needs, but they don't have to because they have no real competition. In the existing system, the political parties use fear to terrify the American voter on the dangers of the other side. Paul talks about how our negative bias and preaching the dangers of the other side is far more effective than selling your vision to voters. Katherine talks about the reform effort of eliminating the partisan primary, having all candidates run in an open primary where every voter can choose the top 5 candidates to go to a runoff. Then you can vote for your first-place choice, second place, third place etc. This is called the Final Five voting system and why it's effective. Paul and Katherine discuss the benefits of having a single open primary and how it ensures nobody wins the election on primary day. In the partisan system because of gerrymandering 90 percent of all races are decided in the primary. Most voters don't matter. In partisan primaries, people are more persuaded by the negative message about the opposing candidate, but in an open primary with multiple candidates going to the runoff, it is more difficult to go negative and incentivizes candidates to give more positive information about what you will do for them. According to Katherine, the most important reason we want to change the election system is to get better results for the community from the government. Election reforms should not be designed to change who, or which party wins elections. They should be designed to change what winners do and on whose behalf they're doing it. The problem with American elections is not with the voters or the politicians. Paul believes it's with the system of how we elect our representatives. For Katherine, it's easier for a camel to get through the eye of the needle than for a problem-solving politician to get through a party primary. Katherine would rather lose something that, if she won, would make a difference than win something that, having won, wouldn't make any difference.     Mentioned in This Episode: optamerican.com Addictive Ideologies: Finding Meaning and Agency When Politics Fail You by Dr Emily Bashah and Hon Paul Johnson KatherineGehl.com Follow @katherinegehl on Twitter The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl

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The "broken" US political system is actually working exactly as designed, says business leader and activist Katherine Gehl. Examining the system through a nonpartisan lens, she makes the case for voting innovations, already implemented in parts of the country, that give citizens more choice and incentivize politicians to work towards progress and solutions instead of just reelection.

The "broken" US political system is actually working exactly as designed, says business leader and activist Katherine Gehl. Examining the system through a nonpartisan lens, she makes the case for voting innovations, already implemented in parts of the country, that give citizens more choice and incentivize politicians to work towards progress and solutions instead of just reelection.

The "broken" US political system is actually working exactly as designed, says business leader and activist Katherine Gehl. Examining the system through a nonpartisan lens, she makes the case for voting innovations, already implemented in parts of the country, that give citizens more choice and incentivize politicians to work towards progress and solutions instead of just reelection.

The "broken" US political system is actually working exactly as designed, says business leader and activist Katherine Gehl. Examining the system through a nonpartisan lens, she makes the case for voting innovations, already implemented in parts of the country, that give citizens more choice and incentivize politicians to work towards progress and solutions instead of just reelection.

El "roto" sistema político de Estados Unidos en realidad está funcionando perfectamente como lo diseñaron, dice la empresaria y activista Katherine Gehl. Al analizar al sistema desde el punto de vista no partidista, propone innovaciones en la forma de votar, que ya se aplicaron en parte del país, que le dan más opciones al pueblo e incentiva a los políticos a trabajar en busca del progreso y de soluciones en vez de simplemente ser reelectos.

Katherine Gehl chats with Trey Elling about THE POLITICS INDUSTRY: HOW POLITICAL INNOVATION CAN BREAK PARTISAN GRIDLOCK AND SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY, including: how the current setup benefits a select few while neglecting many, an example from more than a century ago when the people had to wrest back democracy, and viable solutions to fix elections and the legislative process.

Review of a new book: Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter, The Politics Industry (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020).

If your country’s two dominant political parties faced more competition, they might have to reach beyond their bases to stay competitive. Katherine M. Gehl, founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about lessons from the business world that could fix our political system. Her new book, co-written with Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter, is called “The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy.” 

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Many Americans are horrified about the dysfunction and abysmal results from Washington, D.C., say Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter, and they argue that they have a realistic approach to changing this. They say our political problems are not due to a single cause but rather to a failure of the nature of the political competition that has been created—a systems problem. Come for a rare visit with two of America's top business thinkers as they turn their focus to realigning America's political system through the Gehl Porter politics industry theory. Katherine M. Gehl is a business leader, author and speaker. She was president and CEO of Gehl Foods, a $250 million high-tech food manufacturing company in Wisconsin, where she led a transformational growth strategy and received multiple awards before selling the company in 2015—in part to dedicate more time to political reform. Her career includes roles in the private and public sectors including at Oracle Corporation, Bernstein Investment Research and Management, Mayor Richard M. Daley's office at the city of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools. In 2018, she co-founded Democracy Found, a Wisconsin-based initiative mobilizing a bipartisan group of leaders to implement electoral innovations in Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame and holds an MA from Catholic University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Michael E. Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his lifetime career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market competition and company strategy, economic development, the environment and health care. He is the author of 19 books and over 130 articles and is the most-cited scholar today in economics and business. Porter graduated from Princeton University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a doctorate from Harvard's department of economics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPEAKERS Katherine M. Gehl Former CEO and Political Innovation Activist Michael E. Porter Economist and Professor, Harvard Business School This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on March 28th, 2019.