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The unexpected key to fighting a pandemic: Compassion

It’s been a long, fiercely contested election campaign, inevitably dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. And we already know the result.

No, not the campaign for November’s election in America, but last Saturday’s vote in the Pacific island nation of New Zealand. There, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a landslide of historic proportions. And her victory offered a critically important lesson for leaders worldwide on politics in the time of the coronavirus.

A series of lessons in fact: Leadership matters. The of leadership matters. And while even the right kind can’t save every life, nor avert deep economic and social pain,

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