Screen LibraryMandela's way：lessons in life
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Virgin,
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| Publisher Address: | London |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 243 p.: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781905264773 (hbk.) 1905264771 (hbk.) 9780753519332 (pbk.) 075351933X (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | K834 |
| CLC: | K834.787 |
| Call Number: | K834.787/N271S |
| Contents: |
A complex man --- 1. Courage is not the absence of fear --- 2. Be measured --- 3. Lead from the front --- 4. Lead from the back --- 5. Look the part --- 6. Have a core principle --- 7. See the good in others --- 8. Know your enemy --- 9. Keep your rivals close --- 10. Know when to say no --- 11. It's a long game --- 12. Love makes the difference --- 13. Quitting is leading too --- 14. It's always both --- 15. Find your own garden --- Mandela's gift. We long for heroes but have too few. Nelson Mandela is perhaps the last pure hero on the planet. For nearly three years Time magazine editor Richard Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography and travelled with him everywhere. Eating with him, watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to know all the different sides of this complex man. He became a cherished friend and colleague. Now he has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons. In Mandela's Way, he recounts the moments in which 'the grandfather o |