We can learn so much about our own selves from the diary of a thirteen-year-old. What Death Has to Teach Us. Regardless of our different beliefs, death can teach us how to maximize our potential in life and leadership. An Open Letter to America.
America has always had a special place in the world, as a nation that encouraged you to keep growing. Now we must help America do the same.
Abraham Lincoln invited the American people to do a powerful reflection in - and we can do the same today. The Bet, How a Leader Engages with an Adversary. A beautiful example of personal leadership practiced by Democratic representative Elijah Cummings in an exchange with President Donald Trump. What India Has Taught Me. Ruminations on what India has taught Hitendra about kinship, tolerance, and self-realization. Martin Luther King teaches us about finding your own truth in the cacophony of ideas.
How I Succeeded by Failing in Steve Jobs's Secret to Greatness: Yogananda. Why Everyone Resents Me. We Laughed Until We Cried. Four lessons on personal leadership that we can draw from the life and death of Robin Williams. The latter is future-oriented and focuses on what you are ultimately trying to achieve. Strong-willed and determined, Nelson Mandela never cowered. He vehemently fought for what he believed in, but he was also humble and kind.
Here, he taught us about the power of collaboration and compromise:. A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. Whether it is an employee, customer or partner, when you engage in a debate is your motive to become closer?
To have both sides emerge stronger? Or, to win the argument? Imprisoned for 27 years and then vindicated. Who could endure that kind of oppression and not feel some desire for revenge? Yet, Madiba reached across enemy lines and extended a hand because ending right was more important than being right. By inviting his captors to work with him to bring about positiv e change he demonstrated an incredible level of integrity for the cause and a remarkable capacity to forgive.
The two leaders were a symbol of collaboration and compromise for bringing a peaceful termination to apartheid and for laying the foundation for a new democratic South Africa. Mandela captured the essence of what happened this way:. The efforts of a small dedicated group of leaders working objectively and without any vested personal interest in the outcome, can help resolve what often seem like intractable problems. To be successful in business, politics or relationships of any kind requires the ability to give and take where all sides gain more.
Madiba poignantly reminded us, the world can be a better place, but only if we work together to make it one. If there was a silver lining to his years of imprisonment, Madiba said it was to look in the mirror and create within himself that which he most wanted for South Africa: peace, reconciliation, equality, harmony and freedom. Perhaps his most profound impact and greatest legacy was to teach us, through vivid, living, personal example, to be human before anything else.
Self-awareness is a sign of great leadership. He was a man of quiet dignity to match his towering achievements; a man with an ever radiant smile and immense and humble sense of humor. Mandela was a rare visionary who would see beyond the current struggles and pain. He was convinced that one day the best parts of humanity would prevail over the worst parts. He even inspired his enemies to be better than they had been through forgiveness and reconciliation.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission he established is a great model for achieving justice in all nations where human rights abuses occurred and pain needs to be healed. One of the clear things that propelled Mandela to greatness amidst his suffering and depersonalization in prison, was forgiving his jailors, feeling compassion for those who had caused him pain and his desire for reconciliation.
Mandela had the capacity to transcend himself for the sake of those around him and higher causes. The President tried to shift the blame for imprisonment to Mandela himself: after all, he was now free to go, provided he would be law abiding.
Mandela did not fall for this transparent ploy. Yes, he very much desired freedom after decades of hard labor and confinement in a small cell. What freedom am I being offered if I must ask permission to live in an urban area? Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. The trigger was the assassination of Chris Hani, a popular black leader fighting for equal rights.
Hani was shot in cold blood by a right-wing white extremist when stepping out of his car. The killer was identified by a white woman, who turned him in.
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