Education and Leadership
The link between education and leadership is something that shrewd
businessmen have known for a long time. The myth of the man of the
streets, completely used to being in control and having a strong and
personality, has been all but dissolved in the corporate world.
Leadership and education have to go hand-in-hand, or neither skill is
worth anything. What few businesses have caught onto, however, is the
possibility of education leadership. More and more, there are programs
designed to make smart but cautious business experts Into natural
leaders. Although some people are born leaders, others need some help.
Leadership education provides just the help they need.
When I took my first education leadership program, I was a junior
executive at a large firm. Although I had a great degree from a
reputable college, nonetheless I seemed stalled. My performance was
pretty good, but I never was able to make the next step and get
advancement. I was smart enough to know that, In spite of the fact that
I was working for a large and soulless bureaucracy, the responsibility
for my stagnation was mine and mine alone. I had heard a lot of good
things about education leadership programs, and I asked to be enrolled
in one. My boss was quite happy to see my dedication to
self-improvement!
When I first got to the leadership development program, I was more than
a little bit disappointed. Education leadership seemed a lot like
kindergarten. Basically, it involved a lot of self-affirmation along
with “life lessons”. Instead of learning how to share, however, we were
learning how to tell other people what to do and have them obey us.
Nonetheless, despite the crass simplicity of the education leadership
classes, I could definitely see them working. Every day, I felt a little
bit stronger and a little bit more self confident. Every day I felt a
little bit less inclined to compromise and listen to my opponent's
position, and more inclined to take control. Basically, I was half
21st-century intellectual, half Hun Barbarian marauding across the
steppes. In short, I was prepared for corporate America.
I won't say that education leadership is for everyone, but it certainly
teaches you life lessons that are universal. It is a shame that business
leadership programs are only given to business people. All that junk
about sharing that people learn in school, about teamwork and such,
leaves them unprepared for the real world. Only education leadership
classes can show them how things really are!
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