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Leadership Step by Step
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Leadership Step by Step

by Joshua Spodek
February 2017
Beginner
256 pages
5h 13m
English
AMACOM
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CHAPTER 15

The Method

Nelson Mandela is widely regarded as one of history’s great leaders—enough that if the Nobel Committee hadn’t awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize, you would have said that they messed up, not him. Yet before winning the prize and becoming the father of a nation, he advocated violence. Many considered him a terrorist. What led to his development into a historic man of peace? What can we learn from that development?

Mandela was born in 1918 in a rural area of South Africa, where the white minority held political power. He was the first in his family to go to school. In 1941, he ran away to Johannesburg, where he became a lawyer and entered politics. He joined the African National Congress (ANC), a group promoting African unity ...

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