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One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.
Jim Yong Kim
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Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.
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In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
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I like to change people's sense of what's possible.
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
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I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
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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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Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
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The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
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One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.
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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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I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.
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