David, thank you for sharing your thoughts and your truths! Am inspired to compile 20 lessons from the 20 year history of the Policy School at Northeastern that I now direct!!! 😊

Really appreciated every single one of your 20 lessons. And this one stuck out for me - “Strategic discipline also means knowing when to stop investing in an initiative whose political or institutional conditions will not change.” You did extraordinary work at the UN. And you made the hard decision to move elsewhere when the organization could not deliver on the vision you had.

Your honesty, reflection, and courage will resonate with many far beyond the UN system. Thank you!!