"His bat really gets everybody going.
So we've got an upward growth trend based on the fact that we haven't really gotten everybody on the system that's going to be on the system a few years from now.
Emeli Sande said: "Bob gave a really touching speech before we started singing so I think that really got everybody in the mind frame that we needed to be in to remind us it's fun but we're here for a really serious reason.
"I think this effort has really gotten everybody's attention," says Margaret Anderson, executive director of FasterCures, a think tank in Washington, D.C. "It's given everyone an outlet to start to funnel their thinking about what's going on in medical research".
I came on after the writers had done a considerable amount of work with the producers, and much of the time I was really trying to get everybody on the same page, literally.
"It took us 18 months to put together the SDGs and it wasn't until the last quarter, maybe even the last fourth months, that we began to get a sense as to how all of this would pull together, because we really needed to get everybody to understand just how enterprising the challenge we had set ourselves after Rio was," he said.
You really need to get everybody into [a plan], says J. Robert Beyster, chief executive officer of San Diego, Calif.-based SAIC (see story, p. 154).
One participant in particular shared, "... It's really hard to get everybody at the same place at the same time on the same page thinking the same thing.
I was always doing really silly things to get everybody to laugh.
But I like talking to people that might come from a different perspective and I think, especially as a comic, when you work for social change, being in a more mixed environment is a really great way to get everybody on board.
