Chapter . Introduction: From Built to Last to Success Built to Last
The Mandela Effect
It was close to midnight at the World Economic Forum when we sat down to wait for the last meeting of the day. The freezing rain had turned to a blizzard, but inside it felt like noon in the Sahara as the heating system gushed to overcompensate. Mark Thompson was nodding off in his chair when Nelson Mandela suddenly appeared around the corner, extending a sweaty hand and a tired smile. Thompson shivered as Mandela leaned on his shoulder and eased onto the leather couch.
In the years before Mandela, an activist lawyer, had been sent to a death camp, he was rarely without zealous over-confidence about his mission to end apartheid. South Africa had suffered violence ...
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