Editorial on the first issue of the new journal “Leadership, Education, Personality: An
Interdisciplinary Journal”

– To implement human rights for all people. – To sustainably slow down the still undamped, exponen‐ tial growth of humanity. – To realize sustainability, i.e. stop climate change, regu‐ late the consumption of resources, stop the catastrophic extinction of species, and stop deforestation, reverse marine and air pollution, stop soil poisoning, etc. – To shape digitalization with super computers, quantum computers, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, Big Data, Virtual and Augmented Reality, 3D printing, Blockchain, Bitcoin, and robotics in the spirit of huma‐ nism. – To actively attend the use of biotechnology and nanotech‐ nology in terms of ethical aspects, such as the possibili‐ ties of CRISPR/Cas9. – To cope with the rapidly increasing complexity. – To develop an economy and corresponding systems that not only meet people’s basic needs, but also their social, intellectual and spiritual needs. – To redefine the United Nations in a global world and at the same time realize the subsidiarity of nations and population groups. – To enable all people to live in dignity in peace, freedom and self‐determination. In order to handle these challenges and to shape the future of humanity, many actors in societies, politics, science, education, business, religions, etc. with the appropriate knowledge, qualifications, skills, performance, and perso‐ nality are needed. Personalities who are able and willing to assume leadership for themselves and for human communi‐ ties are needed. Management tasks can be left to self‐lear‐ ning algorithms in the future! We3 define leadership as follows: to lead oneself and human communities4 ethically, sustainably, innovatively, creatively and agilely into the future within open, complex situations under unclear and dynamic conditions. Ethical and sustainable means to shape the survival, the performance and the positive development of the organi‐ zation from which one emerged and with preservation of nature. Innovative, creative and agile means leading an organiza‐ tion to be enabled and open to shape transformation proces‐ ses with the ongoing goal of producing innovations, inclu‐ ding disruptive and radical ones, and making them reality. Leading into the future means shaping the future and, in a complex and changing world, while having clear ideas of the future and the goals derived from them. In order to achieve these goals, a (r)evolution of the entire educational system is required. Plato already explained in the Politeia that it is not of decisive importance for peo‐ ple in state leadership that they are educated in negotiation, warfare, urban development, etc., but that they possess personality.


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School of International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE) der Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin, Herrenberg, Germany When the Greek philosopher Heraclitus stated around 500 BC that "nothing is as constant as change", he could hardly have guessed how true this statement would still be 2500 years later. As mankind is facing the greatest challenges today: -To implement human rights for all people.
-To sustainably slow down the still undamped, exponential growth of humanity. -To realize sustainability, i.e. stop climate change, regulate the consumption of resources, stop the catastrophic extinction of species, and stop deforestation, reverse marine and air pollution, stop soil poisoning, etc. -To shape digitalization with super computers, quantum computers, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, Big Data, Virtual and Augmented Reality, 3D printing, Blockchain, Bitcoin, and robotics in the spirit of humanism. -To actively attend the use of biotechnology and nanotechnology in terms of ethical aspects, such as the possibilities of CRISPR/Cas9. -To cope with the rapidly increasing complexity. -To develop an economy and corresponding systems that not only meet people's basic needs, but also their social, intellectual and spiritual needs. -To redefine the United Nations in a global world and at the same time realize the subsidiarity of nations and population groups. -To enable all people to live in dignity in peace, freedom and self-determination.
In order to handle these challenges and to shape the future of humanity, many actors in societies, politics, science, education, business, religions, etc. with the appropriate knowledge, qualifications, skills, performance, and personality are needed. Personalities who are able and willing to assume leadership for themselves and for human communities are needed. Management tasks can be left to self-learning algorithms in the future! We 3 define leadership as follows: to lead oneself and human communities 4 ethically, sustainably, innovatively, creatively and agilely into the future within open, complex situations under unclear and dynamic conditions. Ethical and sustainable means to shape the survival, the performance and the positive development of the organization from which one emerged and with preservation of nature.
Innovative, creative and agile means leading an organization to be enabled and open to shape transformation processes with the ongoing goal of producing innovations, including disruptive and radical ones, and making them reality.
Leading into the future means shaping the future and, in a complex and changing world, while having clear ideas of the future and the goals derived from them.
In order to achieve these goals, a (r)evolution of the entire educational system is required. Plato already explained in the Politeia that it is not of decisive importance for people in state leadership that they are educated in negotiation, warfare, urban development, etc., but that they possess personality.
In schools with classes of up to 30 pupils, knowledge must be learned by heart and in universities with so-called bulimia "courses of study", the graduates are not able to compete with future digital and quantum systems, let alone to be able to take on leading and shaping tasks. The objective of university education is to enable the formation of self-determined, responsible personalities in the unity of research and teaching, and to revitalize humanistic educational content as an end in itself to the human personality and its contribution to society through non-isolated objectives. Or, in other words, to provide a course of study in which students are educated to generate benefits in their respective partnership (university, company, organization, etc.) by turning good ideas (their own or others') into sustainable and value-creating reality and thus systematically developing performance and leadership competencies and making clear progress in their development towards a creative personality. In addition, students should have the skills to develop systematically and independently even after graduation. The same applies to personnel and management development in companies and organizations.