COACHING— THE NEW LEADERSHIP

At the end of the 20th century and now into the 21st century, a brand new leadership has been developing. Actually, it has been in the works for thousands of years, but usually the voices calling for it were faint and easily ignored. Why? Because over the centuries, the idea of leadership was entirely dominated by the idea of “the leader is the strong man.” This understanding of leadership grew out of the times when human culture was primitive and when “might made right.” In those times the rule of the jungle was also the rule of human affairs and human government. The person in charge was the person who was the strongest, and at first, this was strictly physical and as groups gathered, it was the strongest in the sense of who was the most ruthless, who could and would use fear, threat, and might to get his way. That’s when the military idea of leadership prevailed— that’s when leadership was bossing, ordering, commanding, controlling.