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  • Formaat: Hardback, 226 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x138 mm, 1 Tables, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1041047576
  • ISBN-13: 9781041047575
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 226 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x138 mm, 1 Tables, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1041047576
  • ISBN-13: 9781041047575
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Mandelas Leadership Legacy explores Nelson Mandelas extraordinary ability to lead through moments of existential crisis and uncertainty. Central to his leadership was his attunement to moodthe 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.

Mandelas 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 and Ubuntu it highlights Mandelas "existential practical wisdom"the ability to embrace uncertainty, work with paradox, and foster collective transformation through attuned presence.

By investigating Mandelas profound relational sensitivity, including his ability to turn estrangement and enmity into trust and collaboration, the book offers timeless lessons for navigating todays global crises. It is ideal for professionals seeking inspiration for leading in turbulent times and for students interested in leadership, philosophy, or history.

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"Mandelas Leadership Legacy is a book for our times. It presents a powerful blend of the Ubuntu sensibility of Africa with the existential perspective of Western philosophy to illuminate the foundational paths of Nelson Mandelas ennobling transformation of world history. This book could and should be read as a touchstone for the presence, reflectiveness, and courageous activism that is as imperative for our times as it was for Mandela, and that Mandela so prophetically modelled. I, and many others in the emerging existential activism movement, owe a debt of gratitude to Mandelamay his impact on experiential democracy dialogues prevail!"

Kirk Schneider, Ph.D., Author of The Polarized Mind, The Depolarizing of America, and Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World

"This book invites us to see moods not as passing emotions but as profound sources of questioning and disciplined reflection. In drawing on the example of Nelson Mandela, it shows how engaging with real-life social, political, and organisational challenges can be a route for some people to develop as leadersdemonstrating inner integrity, courage, and reflexivity in ways that are admired and followed by others. Coaches, trainers, therapists, and mentors will find here not only philosophical richness but also a wellspring of practical wisdom for their work with others."

Jonathan Gosling, Emeritus Professor of Leadership, University of Exeter, Former co-founder of the Exeter Centre for Leadership and Author of Influential Work on Leadership Practice

Introduction: At the Edge of Rationality; PART ONE Prologue: Mandela as
"Human, All Too Human"; PART TWO Frameworks for Understanding Existential
Threats 1 The Hidden Secret of Mandelas Leadership: Leading through Moods
and Emotions; 2 Conceptual Frameworks of the Book; 3 Apartheid as a Breakdown
in Relationality; Reflective Pause for Practitioners; PART THREE From Routine
to Rupture, Estrangement to Engagement 4 From Ubuntu to Exile: The Breaking
of Relation; 5 Mandela and the Country Boy Within: From Convention to
Disruption to Transformation; 6 From Estrangement to Political Engagement; 7
Socrates and Mandela: Courtroom Philosophy as World-Disclosure; Reflective
Pause for Readers; PART FOUR The Existential Challenges of Prison 8 Mandelas
Metamorphosis in Prison; 9 Mandelas Meditative Transformation; 10 Mandelas
Transformational Leadership in Prison: Reframing and Reconfiguring as Forms
of Change; 11 Power in Powerlessness: Finding Freedom from Within Constraint;
12 The Power of Presence: Disclosing New Worlds through Leadership;
Reflective Pause for Readers; PART FIVE Mandelas Response to the Existential
Threat of a Political Assassination 13 Setting the Context for Mandelas
Response to the Existential Threat Posed by the Assassination of Chris Hani;
14 The Existential Language of Mandelas Address: Calling a Nation into
Being; 15 From Calculative to Reflexive Phenomenological and Meditative
Thinking: Mandelas Address After Hanis Assassination; Reflective Pause for
Practitioners; PART SIX Mandelas Leadership as a Way of Being-in-the-World
16 Mandela as Existential Therapist: Leaping Ahead in Crisis and
Transformation; 17 Mandelas Strategic Leadership Amid Existential
Disruption; 18 Mandelas Emergent Lived Experience of Ubuntu Philosophy; 19
The Art of Dialogue Across Difference: Mandelas Ubuntu Existential Process;
20 Mandelas Practical and Existential Wisdom: An Aristotelian Lens; 21
Beyond The Prince: Mandelas Ubuntu Transformation of Power; Reflective Pause
for Practitioners; PART SEVEN From Philosophical Failure to Therapeutic
Leadership 22 Mandelas Letting-Be and Heideggers Assertion: Two Responses
to Existential Crisis; 23 Conclusion: Mandelas Existential Ubuntu
Therapeutic Leadership Attunement; Reflective Pause: Dwelling Within
Existential Crisis; Appendix One: Mapping the Arc of Existential Disruption
and Emergence; Appendix Two: Glossary of Philosophical and Framework Terms
Steven Segal was an Associate Professor of Management at Macquarie University, Australia, from 1999 to 2021 and is currently in private practice as a psychologist and leadership coach. He also runs professional development workshops for coaches and psychotherapists.