Comments on: What All Truly Great Leaders Have

By: Karen Phillips

Karen Phillips — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:46:45 +0000

I love getting such distilled observations from you, Bruce. You capture the essence so well and save me lots of research.

I believe you that all 12 have great marriages, but in the case of Nelson Mandela I was surprised. He has married 3 times and his current wife was 53 to his 80 when they married. He had to pay for her, a sizeable sum from what I have read. Somehow that doesn’t sound very romantic, but if it works for them, lovely!

By: Bruce Muzik

Bruce Muzik — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:57:38 +0000

In reply to Tina Griffith.

Hey Tina,

It’s never to late to live the life you want to live.

You can start now, by being someone truly great in this moment.

All DOING comes from BEING and all the great leaders I mention above LIVE by the great principles in that list of criteria i.e. integrity, moral courage, listening, moving beyond fear, humor and love.

Nelson Mandela saved South Africa from apartheid because of who he was, not because of what he did.

What do you feel moved to do if you were to take on just one of those principles and BE it today?

Perhaps you would tell your lover you love him, or help an old person cross a road.

Be it. Do it.

By: Tina Griffith

Tina Griffith — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:51:52 +0000

Very inspiring story, took me to a different level of what I was expecting. Creative and thought provoking. Thank you for your time and effort. With another thought, are you ever too old to make something great with your life? If so, when? Do you ever feel that way? I sure do. Thanks again. TG