How the Vaccine Rollout Will Get Us Back to Work, and What We Can Learn and Do Now to Prevent a Future Global Crisis - with Israeli Entrepreneur Amir Eldad (Ep 73)

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Israel is the leading country in rolling out the covid-19 vaccine to its people. The rest of the world, especially policymakers and strategists, are watching closely, hoping to learn from Israel's success and mistakes.

Will our careers and professional opportunities be back to normal once we all get vaccinated? I invited my friend Amir Eldad for a chat to provide us with an insight into what is happening in Israel.

About our guest, Amir Eldad:

Amir is a globally recognized Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Builder. Throughout the first part of his career, Amir led Global Go-to-Market for Israeli startups that aspired for global leadership while bridging the multi-national cultural gap. His extensive experience led to his role as Director of Global Partnerships of MassChallenge, co-founding MassChallenge Israel, playing a pivotal role in establishing the new MassChallenge Switzerland hub, and leading a high impact partnership between the City of Boston, MassChallenge Boston, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Lyon, France.

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Timestamps to guide your listening:

• 08.40 - Difference between start-up and scale-up?
• 11.50 - Amir explains how Israel is vaccinating the entire country, and he shares his experience living there and experiencing the vaccine rollout on the ground.
• 20.15 - What’s different now that such a large proportion of the country has been vaccinated?
• 22.56 - Israel is a country of startups and a breeding incubator for many innovations. How has it been operating under this pandemic environment?
• 26.52 - Welfare system in Israel.
• 29.50 - Amir's expertise, what does it means to be an expert in entrepreneurial ecosystems?
• 39.39 - What would be the first step for an organization and the decision-maker to start working in that way?
• 45.02 - How can we develop better responses in the future using skills that you have learned in terms of global connectivity, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and these pillars that are the foundation of that?
• 55.12 - Amir is confronted with the opposite reaction where companies or governments feel like they're always in competition and are reluctant to take up an alliance.
• 57.29 - Renata's out-of-the-box analogy.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Amir's earbuds are from Nuheara, an Australian company, and their award-winning product was considered Times magazine's best invention in 2020.
• Renata's golden earbuds are from Jabra and they are pretty ok :)
• New England Journal of Medicine article about Israel nationwide rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.
• Study of Pfizer vaccine rollout in Israel.
• Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis
• Yozma Program 15-Years perspective
• You Need an Innovation Strategy by Gary P. Pisano
• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

About the host, Renata Bernarde

Hello, I'm Renata Bernarde, the Host of The Job Hunting Podcast. I'm also an executive coach, job-hunting expert, and career strategist. I teach corporate, non-profit, and public professionals the steps and frameworks to help them find great jobs, change, and advance their careers with confidence and less stress.

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