Melinda French Gates's 1-Word Response to Her Divorce and Departure From the Gates Foundation Is a Lesson for Every Leader

BILL GATES Cofounder, Microsoft; Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Mandela took hundreds of actions, some large like the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” some seemingly small or marginal, like developing a friendship with the white captain of the country's rugby team, and some on the surface simply odd, like his lunches with the widows of former apartheid leaders. But inherent in so much of what he did was c

Woo-kyoung Ahn, a psychology professor at Yale, wrote a book called Thinking 101.