Thanks for this thoughtful reply and advice – I have clicked through to your interesting article, and hope others do as well.

Thanks again!

I totally agree that leadership should be a professional avenue of scholarly study, but like you say you can’t “mass produce” leaders – they have to earn their right by way of honing their skills from within.

Sometimes most people confuse leaders and bosses. There is however, a major difference between the two. A leader is someone who wins your heart by gaining your trust and devotion, giving you the option to respond. You respond because you doing so is something you want. The former is much harder to teach but is the best guide of earning a leadership PhD.

Check out my own article from my leadership blod, The Definition of Leadership:
Are You a Great Leader? to see what I mean with finding a “real leader”.

I’m with you 100% on your comments. We’re a long way from being done flagellating ourselves with individual leadership in its ever-new guises, piling on top of the older ones which we keep rejuvinating.

It will be interesting to see how this one develops, and how these school-taught “leaders” do.

Thanks for stopping in with this!

But I’ll bet a dollar to a donut that a PhD in leadership will impress some folks where a doctorate in IT would turn them off.

Alas, it’s stuff like this that earns the cynical translation of ‘piled higher and deeper’.