Nepal, Aug. 11 -- Leadership is not a luxury for stable nations or booming corporations. It is a lifeline. It is especially true for countries like Nepal, where resilience, innovation, and transformation are daily necessities. From rebuilding earthquake-stricken communities, navigating federalism, or just trying to get a meeting started on time, leadership is the invisible current connecting aspiration with action.

Yet in our academic corridors, leadership remains strangely absent. Treated more like a weekend workshop than a scholarly pursuit, it is often relegated to a forgotten chapter of a management textbook or disguised as a motivational speaker with a wireless mic and PowerPoint full of stock photos. As a result, we continue to ma...