Stacking the odds
Managing Leadership wonders about the culture in which leadership is cultivated today:
"But of course key among such external factors is the modern leadership movement’s development of the 'science' of 'individual leadership' along with their carefully designed and widely subscribed systems for ensuring that organizations develop and pick the right“leaders,” or that you develop yourselves into such leaders who inevitably will be so identified and promoted.
"But of course key among such external factors is the modern leadership movement’s development of the 'science' of 'individual leadership' along with their carefully designed and widely subscribed systems for ensuring that organizations develop and pick the right“leaders,” or that you develop yourselves into such leaders who inevitably will be so identified and promoted.
So, really, the tendency for larger numbers of talent to compete for generally similar numbers of top positions should actually be amplified by the teachings of the leadership gurus occupying academia,consultancies, and organizational development positions, informed by decades of 'study' and 'research.'"



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