Want to be a business leader of the future? Then make sure you join the Scouts or become a school prefect.
If the results of a survey published today are to be believed, says Debbie Andalo, being a captain of your school sports team or a member of your local youth choir or orchestra is a better indicator of your leadership potential than any academic achievement.
Leadership skills learnt from an early age are more likely to help you rise to the top than a university degree, the survey of 502 business owners and managers by the Institute of Leadership and Management revealed.
Only a third of those questioned were graduates, and one in three of them believed that academic performance at school was the most overrated indicator of leadership potential.
So does this mean that the hours spent on the rugby pitch or playing in the school orchestra is time well spent because it teaches the vital leadership skills which will take you to the top of business tree in later life?
And is university education a waste of time because people are destined to become business leaders from an early age?
