New Rules for World Leaders

Being a current world leader is being like a bad eyed guide of a hallucinating tribe in a dying jungle being provided, by self interested parties, with maps that lie. Around you people screaming a thousand things at the same time, some helpers stealing provisions, others attacking natives that might be friends and others manipulating to stay safer than the rest. And it is your task to help everyone stay safe and grow while the land is hurt and resource dwindle. 
Old perspectives do not function at all anymore. New principles of understanding are needed fast and hard.

Here's a few fragments that might be in the book:

Earth is a space ship and we are all crew.

Long term has precedence over short term; general interest have precedence over a specific group interest. Even the words “our interests” state there is an 'us' and a 'them'. But there is no enemy, but those who say there are. And even these are not enemy, but people disconnected from being part of the whole. Including opponents in solutions is the most healthy way forward. This approach used by Nelson Mandela, might be the smartest way forward to prevent a world drowning in war or dying from collapsing natural cycles, like dead seas and dying out of bees, to start with...

Integrity is the biggest coin you'll ever have.

Why did Mandela shine so very much above the rest? We give too much attention to position and strategy. Any leader with a spin doctor at his side, or even using one, is saying, “I will manipulate the truth to further my interests and convictions.” How could anyone fully believe or trust such a leader, however compelling his statements? How can such we expect such a leader to be everyone's leader, rather than a upgraded gang boss? Mandela's kind of integrity means more than being true to your words. It means being true to an essential understanding of the values that make up human civilization. The world needs leaders who act from that place.

What it is about is here and now present.

You are not separated from the people, nor from your body, nor from all of nature, nor from universal laws. They all apply at any time. The greatest receipt for damage is being disconnected.
Standard leaders often gather in a room, deciding about others outside. But whatever the topic, women's rights, slavery, global warming or raising taxes: the issue and that which created it are present in the room. For example, when you talk suppression, corruption and pollution wonder as honest as possible how they are present in the room, or perhaps even supported. If you can't solve the issue in de room or wouldn't apply the new rule for yourself, then it's not a good rule.

Life is a mystery and you have a purpose.

There is so much we don't know. So stay open. Some voters choose the candidate that can make decisions. But being able to make decisions and being hesitant are not opposites. Doubt has more merit than rash decisions. New information, or a view from another angle may bring new insights. Lobby groups will give manipulated information, high ranking people will protect their jobs and position. A true world leader does not decide based on facts and objectives alone. He will judge interests, assume he has not been told everything, and needs to rely on wisdom more than on strategy. And then, from the outcome be open to change course or even apologize.


And much more...