This column focuses on ideas concerning leaders and leadership. The author proposes that leadership is about showing up and participating with others in doing something. “Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership” by Richard Stengel is explored in light of selected philosophical writings, literature on nursing leadership, and nurse theorist Rosemarie Rizzo Parse's humanbecoming leading-following model. Teaching-learning questions are then posed to stimulate further reflection on the lessons of leadership.
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