Mandela's Leadership Legacy

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

“Mandela’s 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 Mandela’s 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 Mandela—may 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 leaders—demonstrating 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