Great leaders are committed learners. Resilient leaders remain the most teachable. While it is true that the best teacher is the leadership experience itself, Warren Buffet estimates that he spends 80 percent of his time reading.

I don’t doubt I can learn to lead change, Tod. I wonder if I can survive it." Senior pastor of a large church…

The problem with most leadership programs, this and other studies have concluded, is that they are focused more on concepts than context, principles than practices, more on reading experts than reflecting on themselves, and, mostly, more on learning about leading than actually doing the work of bringing organizational change.