Lessons in Leadership

Leadership is not an innate quality. But how does a person become a leader? Reflecting on leadership, on why society needs leaders, and what their purpose is, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks concludes: a true leader is someone who first takes on the burden of responsibility and teaches others to be self-reliant.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948–2020) was a British rabbi, philosopher, and writer, whose books are equally interesting to people of different faiths and the non-religious, as he almost always addresses universal human issues in them. The subjects of his reflections and extensive preaching and academic activities were questions of ethics and morality, responsibility and the common good, humanism and violence. His efforts have been recognized with numerous global honors. His legacy encompasses 35 books, an invaluable contribution to the treasury of intellectual humanistic thought of the 20th and 21st centuries.