Abilities not learned in the classroom

Yesterday I wrote about Greenleaf's ideas on leaders and genius. He indicated that there are two intellectual abilities that are not addressed in the classroom, but that a leader must possess. Those two qualities are:

Leaders need to

• Know the unknowable; and
• Forsee the unforeseeable.

Greenleaf says "The leader knows some things and forsees some things that the people he is presuming to lead do not so well know or so well foresee. This is partly what gives him his "lead," what qualifies him to go ahead and guide the way. And this may be why the genius-level people must sometimes accept the leadership of people who are simply wise."

Greenleaf goes on to speculate about these two leadership necessities within a framework of natural law - something we will come back to soon.