Andre’s Substack
Andre van HeerdenLeadership Development is Personal Development. All videos, articles, podcasts. and posts on my Substack are dedicated to helping you achieve those ideals. And all draw on history, philosophy, classic literature, and extensive business experience.
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The Wages of Misleadership
Reducing people to life-long meaninglessness and dependence on the state is not leadership. Few books illustrate this reality of the postmodern western world better than Life at the Bottom: the Worldview that Makes the Underclass, a rivetin...
Leadership Derailment
Leadership derailment afflicts us all: our world understands leadership more through its absence than through any positive developments we may see. The global leadership deficit is a stark reality.
My own research, compiled over many years...
Become a Leader; Become More Fully Human
“The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge…not merely just, but to hunger and...
AI AIN’T OK
“What I like is we’re smart enough to invent AI, dumb enough to need it, and still so stupid we can’t figure out if we did the right thing.” Jerry Seinfeld
In February 2026, the artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, announced it had agr...
A Leader Would Fight Creeping Tyranny
“The characteristic of the modern State is that those who appear to govern do not in fact govern. They are constrained by forces which they do not name, which they rarely understand, and which they cannot openly oppose. The result is that...
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Former history teacher, soldier, creative director, & marketing executive. Now leadership educator/mentor. Author (Leaders & Misleaders; Is Leadership History?; Leading Like You Mean It; An Educational Bridge for Leaders), and columnist.
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