“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

Lesson for a Leader

The famous legend regarding his defeat and death of King Richard III, was written by William Shakespeare’s unforgettable line: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

The king Richard III wanted to rule England so he decided to have a battle .he asked his groom

To Shoe his horse quickly.the groom went to a blacksmith and instructed the blacksmith.to prepare shoes for the king horse.“You’ll have to wait…I’ve got to get more iron,” the blacksmith answered. Failing to listen, the groom shouted impatiently, “I can’t wait …make do with what you have.”

So the blacksmith bent to his task and from a bar of iron he made four horseshoes. When he began to nail them on, he discovered he did not have enough nails to nail the fourth shoe. “I need one or two more nails and it will take some time to hammer them out,” he said.

“I told you we can’t wait,” the groom responded impatiently. “I hear the trumpets now. Can’t you just use what you have?” “Yes, but I can’t be certain it will hold,” answered the blacksmith. “Well then, just nail it on,” the groom shouted. “And hurry or King Richard will be angry with us both.”

And thus, in the thick of the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, as King Richard’s horse lost a shoe and the battle was lost, history gained a lesson in taking meaningful action. As children everywhere have heard:

“For want of a nail, a shoe was lost,
for want of a shoe, a horse was lost,
for want of a horse, a battle was lost,
for want of a battle, a kingdom was lost.

The moral of the story is Time and Patience is important for a leader .