On my other blog (one of them) I once postulated Luke’s 7th Law (on Leadership):

The amount of true, effective leadership exerted in an organization is inversely proportional to number of times the word leadership is used by those at the top.

Our rhetoric about “leadership” really does get in the way of accomplishing the changes we want to see in our organizations and in higher education. Luke’s Law of Leadership on display and discussed in greater depth:

http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=65075