Peter Orszag
The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Peter Orszag reads as The Operator because disciplined execution follows him into every role. As Lazard chief executive he has restructured the firm with precision, and his earlier service as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama showed the same results-driven rigour. Orszag moves between policy, finance, and advisory work without dulling his analytical edge, holding himself and his institutions to measurable outcomes rather than the management of perception.
“What I like to do with CEOs is to have a broader discussion both about the world and then about what their objectives are. We present ideas and then sometimes people will say, I'm thinking about this, could you work on this with us?”
“The biggest risk is that the world is changing and we don't yet have an intellectual framework that matches this new reality. We have a splintering occurring between the major blocks and we have not adapted to that new world quite yet.”
“I have a vision of what we'd like to accomplish here that I'd like to see through. Lazard is a special place. It's an important place.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Peter Orszag”
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