ve BINAR The Radical Disappearance of Leadership in the Executive Suite SHORT copy

Foreign thank you so much and Henning for having me. I really appreciate this invitation to talk about this critical subject. And it's not surprising to me that you've chosen this subject because you are a firm that supports the whole ideal of and practice of putting leaders into important executive assignments. So it's right consistent with your thinking and your practice and I certainly appreciate that and it's certainly needed. When I was writing my current book, Winning youg Audience, I did research into a number of maybe 40 top business schools, graduate schools of business, and I Learned that only 23% of them required courses and had curriculum in things such as public speaking, leadership qualities they were focused on on. For example, I would like to say you can get an mba and to get an mba, most of those you have to take several accounting courses. You have to take statistical courses, some of them engineering courses. So I like to think, and after I discovered this lack in my viewpoint in MBA programs and I have a lot of other things to say about MBA programs and their lack of contribution to creating real leaders out there, that wouldn't it be better perhaps to hand the accounting courses and to focus on the qualities that an individual really needs to lead other people? Because of course, the whole term leadership begs the question of followership.