Tuesday, 20 April 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Nancy Bora, a student of UPES pursuing BA in Journalism and Mass Communication, received a letter from Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand. Bora had written to Ardern to get her perspective on leadership and teamwork for a project she and her other classmates had been working on. “We decided to make a documentary on the prime minister of New Zealand as she is globally applauded for her leadership style and wrote to her,” said Bora.
In her official letter to Bora, Ardern shared some pertinent leadership lessons. She stressed on leading with kindness, importance of leaders working hard, following passion and leading to change. The New Zealand PM also shared, “I knew I could be Prime Minister and a mother, not because there is anything special about me personally but because women and parents multitask all the time, juggling families and work. I am certainly not the first and I won’t be the last. Women may face some extra challenges in life but that is because of people’s perceptions, not because of our abilities.”
