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Article: The Shareholder Activist Nell Minow: 'I arrived at the best moment for me to walk into ISS. It was fate.'. (A Life in Governance).
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- Directors & Boards
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- September 22, 2001
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"My Getting Into corporate governance was, in a way, absolute dumb luck. Bob Monks and I were both working in the government, on a project for then-Vice President George Bush on regulatory reform. I didn't meet him at that time but that's when I first heard about him. It was later when he was with the Labor Department and I was at the Office of Management and Budget that we met. He was the only political appointee in my experience who actually walked his rules over and sat down and said, "I'm going to sit here until we get these things passed so you tell me what I need to do to get it done." He seemed to have no artificial ego, no sense that if we said, "You know, you ...