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In his widely viewed Tedx talk, entitled “Everyday Leadership”, author Drew Dudley observed: “We’ve made leadership about changing the world, [but] there is no world. There’s only six billion understandings of it.” He went on: “And if you change one person’s understanding of what they’re capable of, and how much people care about them, and how powerful an agent for change they can be in this world, you’ve changed them, and, they, in turn, can change others.
” A powerful example of this is that of the late Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, of righteous memory. What many don’t know about this legendary religious figure is that he did not intend to become a rabbi at all. Indeed, as he tells the story, he once shared his three top choices for a career with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of sainted memory, which included barrister, economist or professor.
The Rebbe wrote a line through all three and added one life- changing word: rabbi. In Rabbi Sack’s words: “The Rebbe was the one who challenged me to go out and lead. And in so doing, he taught me something very important.
The most transformative moments of your life happen when someone believes in you more than you believe in yourself.” Imagine if that encounter hadn’t taken place. Our world would have been deprived of one of the greatest Jewish communicators of our time.
And the same is true of countless individuals whose sense of mission and purpose was activated or accentuated by the Rebbe when he guide.
