A leader’s health is crucial for a leader’s success and longevity. Poor health habits rob leaders of the energy and presence of mind they need to carry out daily life and work. General health is a widely overlooked area for top leaders.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was opposed to Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, and ran “underground seminaries” during the war. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer was executed in the spring of 1945.