Rolodex and Rolex

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The following is the second in a series of essays on leadership. You can read the first installment in the series here. What I am working on here, with mixed results, is a theory of leadership. Unlike most popular works on leadership, I am not constructing a normative theory based upon anecdotal vignettes of businessmen [...]

Leaders are Born and Made

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A few years ago, I sat in the office of a professor of management at a top-tier business school. This respected, senior faculty member confessed to me that no one at the business school knew how to teach leadership. They just inserted the word in course titles, he shrugged, to placate students’ hunger for leadership-oriented [...]