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The world keeps changing, and moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together.

Who will we be to each other in our communities, our nations, our globalized world?

What are politics for? What is an economy for? An education and health care and borders?

Jacqueline Novagratz is a voice I respect on the inadequacy of the simplistic ways we take up such

questions if we take them up at all. The necessity of moral imagination and the cultivation of

character alongside all of the so-called hard skills that are no longer serving us.

This is at the heart of her book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, practices to build a better world.

It feels important to me, in a moment like this, to look below the radar of rupture,

to see models and practices that work, and that in fact can take up the huge hard problems.

Ackerman, which Jacqueline Novagratz founded and leads, is an exercise in creative human-centered

capitalism, a venture capital fund that serves some of the poorest people in the world.

People whose incomes have previously excluded them from the power of the market.

I think in this moment of such peril and possibility, if we tapped into that stirring, that awakening,

we really could build a world like the world has never seen before. And if there was ever a decade to do

it, it's this decade. In the century, may require that of us, if we're to flourish in it, right?

I think this century does require of us. I'm not a shame person, but man, I want future generations

to look back on us and say, look how hard they tried. Not look at how blind they were.

I'm just a tip it, and this is on being Jacqueline Novagratz began her career as a traditional

investment banker. While still in her 20s, she helped start the first microfinance bank in Rwanda,

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