Super Tuesday - a laboratory for what leadership means to millions

One way or another, leadership is what we teach (and do) as management educators. This coming Tuesday, February 5th, millions (I hope) of US voters will create data in their polling places that we and our learners may plum for meaning. All remaining candidates are promising change. Each claims to be the one to put us on a better path and manage a government that will get us there. As far as I can tell, this has to be an altogether new path and the ways of managing that brought us "down here" must be replaced with practices that we take us "up there". Is this not a promise to be entreprenuerial? Yes, this is a shameless plug for the theme of OBTC 2008; but it is also recognition an unprecedented opportunity to let millions of voters teach us a big lesson. Who, in both parties, will come out of those Super Tuesday primaries selected (or at least advanced) as the leader who can make good on the promise of change? Why? What can we and our students learn in this enormous laboratory test to possibly disclose who will become our next President of the United States? This Wednesday ought to be an interesting day to teach OB.