Well, I think frankly, we have a leadership deficit everywhere. It’s clear that the MBA programs, which have given us the leaders for business, are a version of Milton Friedman on steroids, and are in
A good example of 24/7 authenticity, which is in bleak short supply these days in America. I have several examples in the book where standing up with integrity and honesty, and particularly with personal accountability,
“If I have to decide between creating one large hospital that impacts a small number of very, very wealthy lives, but makes me personally rich, versus having a large number of small clinics, that impacts
It pays to embrace strange, not run away or deride it. And to ask questions and be curious about how other people live. If we'd had that mentality at the beginning of COVID-19, it could
If you change your mind because you're telling people what they want to hear, and you're trying to curry favor or get the approval of your constituents, you're doing that for purely political reasons. And
“Loneliness thrives in an ecosystem that its drivers are structural, and political, and economic, as well as to do with choices we make as individuals, and therefore that its solutions need to be comprehensive. That
"And the second thing that really gives me hope is that I have seen what happens when we give some space to nature. I have seen nature bounce back, mostly in the ocean. And the
So, this book, if you will, is a handbook of sorts for anybody who sees themselves as someone who wants to create change and solve problems, whether at a micro community level, an organization level
My motto is: “What we build today will form the Africa of tomorrow.” I actually expanded that to say, “What we build today will form the Africa and the Africans of tomorrow.” And that's looking
“The thing that I found actually resonated [with potential clients] was less of saying how much we knew, and actually playing into how much we didn't know. And actually coming in and saying, look, you