Speaking recently at the TEDxAmsterdam event, Mabel van Oranje, CEO of The Elders, suggests that "we overestimate what we can do in the short term, but we underestimate what we can do in the long term." 

Mabel van Oranje, CEO of The Elders, spoke recently at the TEDxAmsterdam event. Her talk focused on the concept of 'change' - what are the conditions for creating it, how can we measure it, and how do we know when we're achieving it?

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