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Self-Discovery
The Never-Ending Lesson
Learn your way to the top
Education opens the door, but learning decides how far you go. From self-taught pioneers to book-loving leaders, the path to influence is paved not just with degrees but with a hunger to grow.
The mother of leadership
The relationship between education, learning, and leadership has been known and explored for centuries. Have you heard the saying, “Education is the mother of leadership”? Coined by Wendell Willkie, an accomplished lawyer, executive, and 1940 presidential candidate, he knew the value of learning through experience.
But is education always formal? Not at all.
Many of the founders of our nation had little or no formal schooling. George Washington never attended a traditional school. Benjamin Franklin, one of the greatest minds of the 18th century, dropped out of school at the age of ten. Abraham Lincoln, too, left grade school early and educated himself. Would anyone call them uneducated? I certainly wouldn’t.
What they and every great leader had in common was a commitment to learning, as noted in the Harvard Business Review article, “Good Leaders Are Good Learners.” Considering how business leaders allocate billions of dollars each year for leadership…
