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British MP Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan after 9/11, talking with citizens and warlords alike. Now, a decade later, he asks: Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting there? He shares lessons from past military interventions that worked — Bosnia, for instance and shows that humility and local expertise are the keys to success.
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Roger McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology. He has always offset abstract thinking by deliberately teaming up with people completely unlike him. “I’m most effective,” he says, “as a foil to others.”
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Being diagnosed with a blood cancer or related blood condition can be overwhelming, and coming to terms with it can create many challenges. The aim of the The Leukaemia & Blood Foundation (LBF) is to ease some of this burden.
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Lori has founded two award-winning, nationally recognised non-profit organisations, that have dramatically improved care for thousands of children with life-threatening conditions. As the founder and former Executive Director of Jacob’s Heart. Lori designed, implemented, and secured sustainable funding for innovative programmes that provide emotional, financial and practical support to families of children with cancer.
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Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.
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