The best everyday leadership program is finding ways to help others. This can be achieved through coaching, tutoring, counseling, or assisting younger children.
Along the way, an aspiring leader needs to observe leaders. One way is to read about them. Biographies expand one’s knowledge and vision. They introduce new worlds, virtues, and opportunities. In difficult times, biographies provide inspiration, motivation, and wisdom.
High school students benefit from all types of people, including missionaries, business leaders, scientists, musicians, preachers, and politicians. Some leaders, like Winston Churchill, are worth reading over the course of one’s entire life, their lives and times provide great lessons.
Winston Churchill — war correspondent, war hero, grandson of a Duke, spellbinding writer and speaker, member of Parliament, Prime Minister, savior of Western Civilization, gardener, brick layer, painter, historian — is hard to beat.
Over one thousand books have been written about him. The late Paul Johnson’s Churchill is arguably the best short single-volume biography of his life. Superbly written, the book introduces a man with rare courage.
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