... leadership is a quest of men seeking to find themselves and that in so seeking, they shape the lives of other people. ... At the core of every great political identity lay an idea - an idea imposed on the leader from his past, which the leader absorbed, changed and then imposed on the others outside. ... their identities came from the ideas that been pumped into them, the ideas they chose in turn to pump out. Their cruelties and nobilities, their creations and tragedies, flowed far more certainly from what was in minds than from what was in ther glands.

White, T. H. (1978). In search of history: A personal adventure. NY: Harper & Row, p. 4.

This description of leadership by a noted journalist derived from five decades of observing world leaders who made history during the 20th Century. They lead nations with ideas that resulted in peace and war, slaughter and healing, celebrations and scandels, prosperity and hard times for hundreds of millions of people at a time.

I wonder how this experienced based definition of leaderships matches definitions of those who manage schools under the same title. On the surface, White's definition appears inconsistent with school leadership programs.

And, what implications do mobile PCs have for implementing White's idea of leadership for learning?

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