Mandela: His 8 Lessons of LeadershipTime: July 09, 2008 by Richard Stengel
" Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. "
Uncomfortable with abstract philosophical concepts, he would often say to me that an issue "was not a question of principle; it was a question of tactics." He is a master tactician. . . .
. . . . the world has never needed Mandela's gifts — as a tactician, as an activist and, yes, as a politician — more. . . .
. . . . I've always thought of what you are about to read as Madiba's Rules (Madiba, his clan name, is what everyone close to him calls him), and they are cobbled together from our conversations old and new and from observing him up close and from afar. They are mostly practical. Many of them stem directly from his personal experience. All of them are calibrated to cause the best kind of trouble: the trouble that forces us to ask how we can make the world a better place.
1 -Courage is not the absence of fear — it's inspiring others to move beyond it.
2 -Lead from the front — but don't leave your base behind.
3 -Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
4 -Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport.
5 -Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer.
6 -Appearances matter — and remember to smile.
7 -Nothing is black or white.
8 -Quitting is leading too.
READ MORE
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela - Little Brown & Co., 1995
The Meaning of Mandela: A Literary and Intellectual Celebration
by Xolela Mangcu (Editor), Desmond Tutu (Foreword by)
Human Sciences Research Council, 2007
Prisoner in the Garden
by Nelson Mandela Foundation, 2006
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
by Nelson Mandela (Editor) - Norton, 2007
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made A Nation
by John Carlin - Penguin, August 2008
" Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mine-worker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president. "
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