The London Consensus: Chile’s Former Finance Minister Andrés Velasco on Why Ideas — Not Interests — Shape the World
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We often project our 'superhero' aspirations onto our leaders and vulnerability, and other more human traits, are not always encouraged. Organisational leaders often experience loneliness, and the 'truth' within their company is often illusive to them because subordinates will often tell them what they want to hear.
When you innovate under constraints like this, you go to a different level- that's the opportunity India provides.
I don't want my success to define me. I want people to see me without all that – success comes and goes, without it, I am still who I am.
As humans, we've evolved in a world where the pace of change was slow. Our minds are not structured for the pace of rapid change that we're seeing and, increasingly, will experience. One way that we deal with the accelerating rate of change is by sort of riding on top of that tsunami of change rather than being crushed by it.
It's amazing how little data the world has about women and girls. There are even gender gaps in the data we use to measure gender gaps.
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