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Patty Stonesifer on Adjusting to a New Role

Going from Microsoft Corporation, a for-profit organization with thousands of employees, to start a new foundation required a bit of readjustment for Patty Stonesifer, the former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this video clip from her interview with Bridgespan Group Chairman and Co-Founder Thomas J. Tierney, Stonesifer explains how she had to “scale down” and adjust her approach to managing an organization to take on the role of CEO of a start-up foundation.

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