Vader leidde bedrijf door Libanese burgeroorlog: lessen in crisismanagement

A Fortune article recounts how the author learned leadership principles by observing his father manage businesses during Lebanon's 15-year civil war. The father maintained operations and employee payments despite infrastructure collapse, making daily decisions based on current conditions rather than outdated plans. These lessons—acknowledging system failures while continuing work, and holding contradictory realities simultaneously—shaped the author's later career, including his role building Majid Al Futtaim into a $15 billion enterprise across multiple markets.