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There is an English expression, “to be naïve.” In Korean, it is often translated as “pure,” “innocent,” or “simple,” and it describes someone who does not fully understand how the world works. A person who is pure but ignorant of worldly matters risks exploitation...

Helen Clark (Helen Elizabeth Clark), the first woman to become Prime Minister of New Zealand, once cited a “thick face” as one of the essential qualities of a 21st-century leader. Anyone who has risen to the top of a nation will have experienced just about everything...

Donald Trump, who served as the 45th President of the United States, was inaugurated as the 47th President on January 20, 2025. Following Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd and 24th president, Trump became the second U.S. president to hold nonconsecutive terms....

In 605 BC, Daniel was taken captive to Babylon as a prisoner of war. Yet he was selected by King Nebuchadnezzar and rose to a position second only to the king himself, helping to govern the empire in a foreign land. From Daniel’s life, I see three outstanding...

These days, the buzzword in leadership is servant leadership. Especially when the leader is a religious leader, servant leadership is considered essential. Yet few leadership styles are as misunderstood and misapplied as servant leadership. Fundamentally, a leader and...

Leadership experts consistently advise aspiring leaders to maximize their strengths in order to become effective leaders. Efforts to overcome one’s weaknesses are commendable. However, overcoming weaknesses does not make one a better leader, because weaknesses cannot...

Leadership is “influence.” Leadership is also “communication.” Those who cannot communicate have no chance to exert influence. Great leaders throughout history—such as Churchill, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.—all possessed an outstanding command of language. In...