Barbara Kellerman: There’s a better way to train leaders Available to Purchase

Harvard authority on leadership, Barbara Kellerman, indicts the deficiencies of the leadership industry and she argues that we can do better.

This interview offers a bold prescription for training effective leaders[⁴].

To be effective, the leadership development process must adopt and achieve three goals: educate leaders, train leaders and develop leaders.

Bad leadership puts on vivid display the unbreakable link between leaders and followers – a link that the leadership industry willfully ignores precisely because there’s no money in it.

There is precious little evidence that the leadership industry has in any meaningful, measurable way benefited society.

A “no holds barred” look at the leadership training industry and some potent suggestions on how to improve it.