00:01Ian Fletcher is the man widely credited with delivering the 2012 Olympic Games in London, in 2012.
00:08After that, he moved to the BBC, where he was Head of Values for six increasingly long years.
00:14When the BBC thing ended, I wasn't quite sure what to do.
00:17I was on the board of the National Obesity Initiative for a while, but that didn't really go anywhere.
00:22And now he's arrived in Florida, about to take up his biggest challenge yet.
00:26But how did he get here? How did it happen?
00:29What does it take to be Ian Fletcher?
00:32If any leader is only as good as the weakest cog in the gear wheel,
00:36perhaps part of the skill is to establish exactly who that cog is and why.
00:41All hail the mighty Fletcher. Are you OK with that?
00:43Yes, no, that's fine.
00:44But leadership is also about making yourself visible at key moments.
00:48In an age of great change, the me will change and the you will change, the technology will change,
00:54but the thing at the centre of it all, that will remain.
00:59But whether it's the Olympics in London or the BBC in London, it's not just about where you're going,
01:05it's also about why you're going there.
01:07Well, yeah, yeah, nothing.
01:09And leadership involves communicating a clear set of shared values across an organisation made up of highly trained individuals.
01:16The thinking is, if this isn't who we are, then who are we?
01:20What?
01:20Don't know, God knows, give up.
01:22Yes, no, brilliant, brilliant, Neil.
01:23Ian became famous for his belief that problems can often just be solutions waiting to happen.
01:28What I want us to focus on right now is how we move from the problem phase of the problem
01:32to the solution phase of the problem as swiftly as possible.
01:34Right, yes.
01:35Totally, I'm totally good with that.
01:36But equally, problems can also just be problems.
01:40And in those cases, someone needs to decide what to do.
01:43You haven't got a shovel of any kind, have you?
01:45Um.
01:46Must have somewhere, surely.
01:47All the s*** you guys produce.
01:48Okay, shall we?
01:50And if the key to everything is teamwork, then the key to that is to surround yourself
01:54with the smartest people you can find.
01:57Yeah, not a problem.
01:58That's not a problem.
01:58No, thank you.
01:59No, no, not a problem.
02:00I mean, is he a close friend of yours at all?
02:01I mean, Barney's totally plugged in.
02:03He's an idiot.
02:04If you've got a minute, would you be able to go down and get me a cappuccino?
02:06Cool, yeah.
02:06You know, a proper one from downstairs.
02:08Yeah, no, a latte.
02:09But that was then, and this is now.
02:11Ian Fletcher is in Miami because he's been recruited by the organising body behind the biggest football
02:17event the world has ever seen to the key new post of Director of Integrity.
02:23And if he's been wondering exactly what that means, he's about to find out.
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