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No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

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One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

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Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.

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Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

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A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

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Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

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Many people could benefit from meditation.

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What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

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World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

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Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

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Biography

Nationality: South Korean

Type: Public Servant

Born: Unknown

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