If you want good leaders, learn to follow.

The Romans were not prepared for Hannibal in the first Punic war (War elephants were not in the training curriculum), and Pope Paul V had a problem with Copernicus and heliocentricity. Later, France and Britain were not prepared for Blitzkrieg because that was not how gentlemen did war. Legend has it that IBM Chairman Thomas Watson thought there was a market for maybe five computers globally and was not ready for Bill Gates. Major retailers were not ready for Jeff Bezos.

In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

None of the people who upended the paradigms of the established order followed the rules, and neither will those who we need to lead us out of the mess shareholder capitalism, and hubris has brought us to.

It seems unfair that those who have spent a fortune learning old ways and following old paradigms will find themselves like those surprised Romans, but that'…