Mandela's Leadership Legacy
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-04761-2 (ISBN)
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Mandela’s Leadership Legacy explores Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary ability to lead through moments of profound crisis and uncertainty. Central to his leadership was his attunement to mood—the emotional and existential atmosphere through which people experience disruption. Long overlooked in leadership studies, mood shaped the way Mandela created trust, defused fear, and opened possibilities when conventional strategies failed.
Mandela’s wisdom was forged not only in prison but in the existential challenges he faced upon leaving the familiarity of his ancestral homeland and confronting the disorientation of city life. From this early rupture through to his imprisonment, the collapse of apartheid, and the assassination of Chris Hani, he demonstrated a rare capacity to transform existential threats into opportunities for renewal and unity. This book examines how Mandela combined strategic foresight with therapeutic sensitivity, allowing him to guide individuals and nations through disruption with ethical resolve and visionary clarity. Drawing on frameworks from Heidegger, Derrida, and Ubuntu, it highlights Mandela’s “existential practical wisdom” – the ability to embrace uncertainty, work with paradox, and foster collective transformation through attuned presence.
By investigating Mandela’s profound relational sensitivity, including his ability to turn estrangement and enmity into trust and collaboration, the book offers timeless lessons for navigating today’s global crises. It is ideal for professionals seeking inspiration for leading in turbulent times and for students interested in leadership, philosophy, or history.
Steven Segal was an Associate Professor of Management at Macquarie University, Australia from 1999 – 2021 and is currently in private practice as a psychologist and leadership coach. He also runs professional development workshops for coaches and psychotherapists.
Introduction: At the Edge of Rationality, Part 1: Prologue - Mandela as “Human, All Too Human”: A Nietzschean Portrait, Part 2 Introduction: Frameworks for Understanding Existential Threats, Chapter 1: The Hidden Secret of Mandela’s Leadership Leading Through Moods and Emotions, Chapter 2: Conceptual Frameworks of the Book, Chapter 3: Apartheid as a Breakdown in Relationality, Chapter 4: Part 2 Reflective Pause for Readers, Part 3 Introduction: From Routine to Rupture, Estrangement to Engagement, Chapter 5: From Ubuntu to Exile: The Breaking of a Relational Whole, Chapter 6: Mandela and the Country Boy Within From Convention to Disruption to Transformation, Chapter 7: From Estrangement to Political Engagement, Chapter 8: Socrates and Mandela Courtroom Philosophy as World-Disclosure, Chapter 9: Part 3 Reflective Pause for Readers, Part 4 Introduction: The Existential Challenges of Prison, Chapter 10: Mandela’s Metamorphosis in Prison, Chapter 11: Nelson Mandela's Meditative Transformation, Chapter 12: Mandela’s Transformational Leadership in Prison - Reframing and Reconfiguring as Forms of Change, Chapter 13: Power in Powerlessness — Finding Freedom from within Constraint, Chapter 14: The Power of Presence — Disclosing New Worlds Through Leadership, Chapter 15: Part 4 Reflective Pause for Readers, Part 5 Introduction: Mandela’s Response to the Existential Threat of a Political Assassination, Chapter 16: Setting the Context for Mandela’s Response to the Existential Threat posed by the Assassination of Chris Hani, Chapter 17: The Existential Language of Mandela’s Address: Calling a Nation into Being, Chapter 18: From Calculative to Phenomenological and Meditative Thinking Mandela’s Address after Hani’s Assassination, Chapter 19: Part 5 Reflective Pause, Part 6 Introduction: Mandela’s Leadership as a Way of Being-in-the-World, Chapter 20: Mandela as Existential Therapist: Leaping Ahead in Crisis and Transformation, Chapter 21: Mandela’s Strategic Leadership in a Time of Existential Disruption, Chapter 22: Mandela’s Emergent Lived Experience of Ubuntu Philosophy, Chapter 23: The Art of Dialogue Across Difference Mandela’s Ubuntu Existential Process, Chapter 24: Mandela’s Practical and Existential Wisdom An Aristotelian Lens, Chapter 25: Beyond The Prince: Mandela’s Ubuntu Transformation of Power, Chapter 26: Part 6 Reflective Pause, Part 7 Introduction: From Philosophical Failure to Therapeutic Leadership, Chapter 27: Mandela’s Letting-be and Heidegger’s Assertion - Two Responses to Existential Crisis, Chapter 28: Conclusion - Mandela Existential Ubuntu Therapeutic Leadership Attunement, Chapter 29: Part 7 Reflective Pause: Dwelling Within Existential Crisis, Appendix 1: Mapping the Arc of Existential Disruption and Emergence, Appendix 2: Glossary of Philosophical and Framework Terms
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.7.2026 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-041-04761-4 / 1041047614 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-041-04761-2 / 9781041047612 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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