Leadership Theories

’Tis the season for commencement addresses. Last year brought a batch of good ones, often on how failure can lead to success. Example: J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, told Harvard grads that seven years after her own graduation, she had “failed on an epic scale … You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”