Saturday, December 7, 2013

What Mandela taught us - By Simon Kuper

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a342e372-5c64-11e3-931e-00144feabdc0.html

As Carlin wrote in his previous study of Mandela, Playing the Enemy , any book about him ends up turning into a self-help book. Mandela knew how to make friends and influence people. Arguably a saint, he was definitely a politician who understood power. Here, drawn largely from Carlin’s work, are lessons from Mandela for politicians and everybody else