Leadership as sacrifice and inspiration

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In this clip, Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Winner outlines what he believes to be the key qualities of leadership. What I found most interesting from the qualities he mentions is the idea of a leader as someone who sacrifices, even suffers, for the sake of the people that he leads. This means that as leaders, we some times need to venture out of our comfort zones in order to make a real difference. Many great leaders have risked their lives for their causes, many have put their lives on halt for their causes. If the time comes for us to do that to make a difference, would we be willing to do so? Or will we rationalize so that we maintain comfortable ways of life?

Servant leadership, indeed, has a lot to do with sacrifice.

[Posted by Dalumuzi H. Mhlanga for Social Outreach team]