Thought Leader School

The Open Sourcing of Thought Leadership and Community Learning ThoughtLeaderSchool.com / ThoughtLeadershipSchool.com I believe there is an opportunity to create a new paradigm in the personal development industry. The democratization of self-help is the future wave of the human potential movement, much in the same way that decentralization is apparent in industries ranging from telecommunications, music, and publishing. It is also apparent that previous thought leadership models have not been successful at their goals, since much of the world is paralyzed in strife and hardship. It is my belief that what the world needs millions of effective and empowered mentors, healers, coaches, writers, and people of service, to heal the fatal social and psychological fractures that threaten our very existence. To create these thought leaders, we must remove the barriers to entry, without qualification, to the station of thought leadership, and establish a community learning model, where we all take one-another by the hand, and teach each other where we are at in life. This model must accept that everyone has something valuable to offer and say in the great conversation of life — from advanced degreed educators, to a so-called illiterate grandmother's hug. I believe thought and heart leadership can present in many ways. The shift in perspective of what a thought leader is will pave the way for this vision to become a reality. As I have written previously,"the task of leadership is to create more leaders," and,"the distinguishing characteristic of a true leader is pure elation in seeing others prosper." Read More: