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With his large white Afro and beard, sonorous baritone voice and tall stature, Soyinka has a commanding presence. His spacious office is located across the hall from Gates’, and his shelves are overflowing with books, many of which have “Africa?? written somewhere along their spines...
...spring of 1979, more than 100 faculty members signed a petition urging Harvard to sell its stakes in companies that conducted dealings with South Africa??s apartheid regime. Ultimately, Harvard divested itself from about a half-dozen companies...
...research my book, Confidence, I analyzed the waxing and waning of confidence in dozens of organizations in various stages of success, decline, or turnaround—including Gillette, the BBC, and Nelson Mandela’s South Africa??to understand how leaders create the conditions for high performance. I studied 21 college and professional sports teams with long winning streaks or losing streaks, looking at what happened before and after pivotal games. I tested hypotheses about differences between perpetual winners and habitual losers through surveys of 1200 business leaders and 1500 high school athletes and coaches. It became...
...asked Harvard to help by advising NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa??s Development...
...black African. But before she laid hands on me, I was greeted, scheduled and asked in sterling English by an Indian employer what should be the fate of my locks. She didn’t speak to her underling in Swahili, the lingua franca of Africa??s Eastern coast, but rather in Hindi. In this place, two languages separated me from understanding...