Teaching is Leading
Leading is Teaching President John F. Kennedy was supposed to deliver a lunchtime speech the day he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963; in the speech, he wrote that "leading...[is] essential to the leadership's hopes for continued progress and prosperity." Kennedy knew that learning and leadership were connected like no other subject. What we fundamentally know has been borne out in research; a professor of management at Dartmouth College conducted a study to examine specific attributes of leaders who exhibited outsized abilities and reported the findings in Harvard Business Review (2018). He notes (as the title states), “The Best Leaders Are Great Teachers.” These leaders use every opportunity to help grow and develop their staff through “ongoing, intensive one-on-one tutoring.” The study found these leaders ...