Spirit of Leadership

THE HIDDEN LEADER IN YOU I gladly consented, and arrangements were made for my driver—who also served as my interpreter—and me to leave at first light the next morning. We started out at six o’clock, and after driving for almost two hours, we finally left the modern city lights and were greeted by unpaved roads, dusty villages, and dense green forests. Just when I thought we were about to arrive, my driver indicated that we still had another two hours to go before we arrived at our village destination. Suddenly, I realized that we were headed for a safari experience. After another bumpy two hours through what seemed to be jungle, we finally entered a clearing. There stood a group of chil dren who suddenly broke into wild, excited chanting, as if they had just experienced the end of a long anticipation. As we came to a noisy stop, a group of happy men emerged from a large thatched hut. They were led by a gentle man wearing a welcoming smile and simple cloth ing. We embraced, and he invited me in to the grass-roofed building in which over three hundred men and women sat eagerly waiting for us to begin the teaching session. I was deeply humbled by the hunger and patience of these beau tiful people, and I gave them my best. It was a joy to be so well received. After the session, the chief of the village invited me to a special dinner in my honor where I was treated to cuisines traditional to village life and culture—some familiar to me A N ARMY OF SHEEP LED BY A LION WILL ALWAYS DEFEAT AN ARMY OF LIONS LED BY A SHEEP .

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