Melinda French Gates's 1-Word Response to Her Divorce and Departure From the Gates Foundation Is a Lesson for Every Leader
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Melinda French Gates's 1-Word Response to Her Divorce and Departure From the Gates Foundation Is a Lesson for Every Leader
Leaving my marriage was one of the hardest and most important things I’ve ever done. And there is, I am sure, a parallel universe where none of this ever happened. Where I never learned to listen to the voice that whispered inside me. Where I didn’t have the people around me who gave me the courage to do what I needed to do to regain control over m
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Penna told me that after it was announced that this person was leaving (and everyone knew that it was not voluntary), “he doubled back and asked several of us ‘What could I have done differently?’” Penna found this “courageous and self-aware . . . he could easily have packed up his belongings and just headed out and blamed us and the culture.”
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within a year, she had put together a cross-agency group of behavioral scientists, policy experts, and program makers, founding and chairing the White House’s first-ever Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. When Obama left office in January 2017, Shankar also departed, moving on to become Google’s global director of behavioral science. In 2021, she
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