Nelson Mandela, who celebrated his 90th birthday on Friday, recently sat down with TIME managing editor Richard Stengel, who collaborated with Mandela on his 1993 book Long Walk to Freedom to discuss what it means to be a leader.
According to the article:
Mandela is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint, but he would be the first to admit that he is something far more pedestrian: a politician. He overthrew apartheid and created a nonracial democratic South Africa by knowing precisely when and how to transition between his roles as warrior, martyr, diplomat and statesman.
Stengel says the lessons “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.”
Also, in honor of the world’s great hero, Stengel narrated a photo essay offering a look at the life and leadership of Madiba, Mandela’s clan name and what everyone close to him calls him.
According to the article:
Mandela is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint, but he would be the first to admit that he is something far more pedestrian: a politician. He overthrew apartheid and created a nonracial democratic South Africa by knowing precisely when and how to transition between his roles as warrior, martyr, diplomat and statesman.
Stengel says the lessons “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.”
Also, in honor of the world’s great hero, Stengel narrated a photo essay offering a look at the life and leadership of Madiba, Mandela’s clan name and what everyone close to him calls him.
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