Leadership school

A leadership school is an organization, or entity within an organization, that provides education that focuses on the development of leaders.

This activity can be undertaken at different levels. It can be in the form of training, seminars, institutes, or more comprehensive frameworks that lead to the awarding of a certificate, degree, or diploma. The leadership curriculum is intended^[citation needed] to shape leadership behavior, and the approach used in developing the curriculum can vary, depending on the beliefs of the founders. These things potentially make leadership have a rich and broad meaning, which can also make it difficult for people who want to study leadership to find common ground.

History

While theorists and practitioners in the United States in the 19th and early-20th centuries developed the field that they called "management", socialists in Europe founded schools for their prospective leadership cadres. Lenin established the Longjumeau Party School near Paris in 1911 to train Bolshevik leaders.[1] The International Lenin School of the Comintern operated from 1926, training international students in communist theory and operation and its organization.[2]

In the Third Reich (1933-1945) in Germany, the Nazi Party fostered élite schools, among which the National Political Institutes of Education or Napola, the Adolf Hitler Schools and the Reichsschule Feldafing in particular trained prospective National Socialist leaders.[3]

See also

• National School of Leadership
• National Outdoor Leadership School
• Korean Minjok Leadership Academy
• THNK School of Creative Leadership

Notes

1. White, James D. (14 March 2017). Black, Jeremy (ed.). Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution. The Palgrave Macmillan Lenin. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350317529. Retrieved 2 December 2024. In May 1911 Lenin did what he had accused Bogdanov and his friends of doing - organising a party school for fractional purposes. The school was held in the village of Longjumeau near Paris and had eighteen students from party organisations in Russia. Among the students were not only Bolsheviks but also Party Mensheviks, Vperedists and SDKPiL. Among the Bolshevik students were Sergo Orjonikidze and R. V. Malinovskii [...].
2. Morgan, Kevin (28 December 2016). "Cult Variations". International Communism and the Cult of the Individual: Leaders, Tribunes and Martyrs under Lenin and Stalin. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 83. ISBN 9781137556677. Retrieved 2 December 2024. For a decade from 1926, the Comintern's International Lenin School turned out hundreds of cadres for leadership positions according to clear and specific class criteria.
3. Sax, Benjamin C.; Kuntz, Dieter (1992). Inside Hitler's Germany: A Documentary History of Life in the Third Reich. Sources in modern history. D.C. Heath. p. 306. ISBN 9780669250008. Retrieved 2 December 2024. [...] Napola [...] served as training grounds for future political and military leaders, whereas the Adolf Hitler schools aimed to nurture future political leaders.