How do you build authentic leadership from within? What habits and values sustain the most influential leaders? Is it possible to elevate our self-leadership by learning from traditions and cultures around the world? Self-Leadership offers answers to these questions, inviting you on a global journey where you will discover how to lead yourself in order to lead others with credibility, moral authority, and example. Through six powerful concepts, we will explore teachings that transcend time and borders. From ancient Greece, with Aristotle and his eudaimonia, you will learn that happiness is not an abstract desire, but a daily practice that requires conscious decisions. From Greece to New Zealand, where whakapapa has inspired its legendary rugby team, the All Blacks. And also where the Maori culture seeks to leave a powerful legacy. We fly from Oceania to Japan, which has turned ikigai, or reason for being, into a philosophy of life. That is why Okinawa is the blue zone with the highest longevity on the planet. From Hispanic tradition, we recover the concept of honor. Human beings must assume our duties to others at the same level as or above our rights. A powerful habit. And from Hispanic countries to South Africa, to learn about ubuntu, the sense of community: I am because we are. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu embodied this leadership of service with strength and humility. Finally, the Anglo-Saxon concept of tipping point, the key to exponential success: ideas, products, and services spread like viruses... and they just need the right moment to multiply their impact. A journey that shows that true leadership is not imposed from outside: it is cultivated from within and projected to the world.
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