Leadership Schools Programs

In 1969, seven blind men climbed Kilimanjaro to prove that blind people were capable. Thirty-six years later, another party came down the same mountain and found the braille machines locked in a cupboard. They had trained for a fortnight. They came from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, and they climbed to settle a question their societies had already answered without asking them. In 2005 a second expedition descended, visited a school outside Moshi, and asked to see the braille machines. They were in a store cupboard. Locked. Most of them broken. The school had been protecting them, and from ...

Leadership doesn't end when the uniform comes off. After more than three decades in uniform, Paul J. Ferguson returned to the classroom—not because he lacked experience, but because he believed the best leaders never stop learning. What he discovered at Harvard Business School was not simply a new way to think about business, but a deeper understanding of leadership, humility, stewardship, and lifelong growth. Beyond the Uniform is a thoughtful reflection on what it means to become worthy of those we lead. Drawing on a career of command, executive leadership, teaching, and conversations ...