Looking to the Future: A Contribution to Leadership Futures Research for Acquiring, Learning, and Implementing Leadership

Abstract

Are management and leadership learnable practices that can be taught to young people at university or are they not something that can be learned in an (MBA) study programme but are to be regarded as more of an art?. In this thesis, the scientifically supported assumption, based on neuroscientific knowledge, is made that the basics of leadership can be learned like any other activity and behaviour. At the same time, however, the person of the leader is important, which means that learning skills are far from sufficient and that learning must include the personality, character, and being of the leader.Therefore, in the following section, the questions concerning what exactly is to be learned in leadership training, who the learner is, how learning takes place, and what other circumstances influence the topic of leadership need to be systemically considered. Before this, currently existing scientifically inspired learning frameworks are presented and discussed.