This book details the leadership principles used by Mother
Teresa in building one of the world’s largest and most successful
organizations, with this as its central lesson: leaders must
articulate a simple vision, and execute it with absolute
practicality. Bose—who spent eight months working with Mother
Teresa in 1992-3—and Faust have distilled Mother Teresa’s
leadership style into nine essential principles. Each principle
shows readers how to apply Mother Teresa’s wisdom in their lives
and businesses.
Much has been written about Mother Teresa. She is an actual
saint, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003, as well as the
winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, This book is the first to
view her in another light—as a pragmatic, realistic leader who over
47 years raised billions of dollars and helped millions of people.
This often meant making tough decisions—such as accepting a
donation from Saddam Hussein. This book has the principles that
guided those decisions. These are universal principles that can
help any leader working to keep an organization on course and on
mission.