Re-think leadership

Re-think what you learn and teach about leadership. 

Consider your own response to this question: "During the days of Christopher Columbus, was the world flat or round?" 

Many of us believe in the notion that everyone in the Middle Ages thought the world was flat. When we brush up against the historical ceiling of our own educational programming, misconceptions prevail as Jeffrey Burton Russell explains in the "Myth of the Flat Earth". Contrary to our belief, Jeffrey reiterates “with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat.”

If a misrepresentation like this exists in our own educational system can you imagine what's going on in the field and study of leadership? 

Whether you believe the world is flat like Thomas Friedman or round like everybody else it doesn't matter. What matters is that we are diligently doing our share to create the change we wish to see in the world even if it means re-thinking what we learn and teach about leadership.