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Einstein, The Universe, and Leadership
By Brent Filson
Einstein, The Universe, and Leadership
by: Brent Filson
Every since serving a hitch in the military, I have been nagged by the question that’s been hanging
around leadership since time immemorial: How can some leaders persuade people to believe in them
and follow them and other leaders can’t? But it wasn’t the military that provided me with a framework to
answer that question. It was Albert Einstein and his quest for the unified field theory of the universe.
Einstein is well known for his special and general theories of relativity, two of the crowning intellectual
achievements of the 20th century. But what he is not so well known for is a magnificent quest that he
carried on for some 30 years — and ultimately failed in. That was his quest for a unified field theory of
the universe, a theory that explains all the forces of the universe. And it was a quest that inspired me,
in my small way, to find an answer to the leadership question.
Einstein’s special theory combined space and time into a single concept known as the space-time
continuum. He spent the rest of his life failing to develop a unified field theory that incorporated gravity
into the electromagnetic field. But it wasn’t his trying to solve the conundrums of physics that inspired
me. It was his trying to unify the grand forces of the universe that’s so compelling.
Just as there are grand forces driving the activities of the universe, I’m convinced that there are grand
forces driving the activities of leadership. Whether we are