About this PALEO-Leadership Mastery Environment

Thanks for visiting this Paleo-Leadership Mastery environment. It is much more than a web site. It is an “All Things Leadership” Intelligent Platform that explores nearly 4,000 years of Leadership history. For starters, let me repeat that this is not a traditional web site environment. It is an “Intelligence Environment”. I designed, developed, and produced this Leadership Focused Intelligence Environment to enrich one’s thinking about the scope, depth, substance, history, evolution, and potential of Leadership to change human experience. - Ray Newkirk

Over the last few decades, an impressive number of books and articles have emerged that present a wide range of “opinions” and thoughtful considerations about the nature and practice of Leadership as a professional, goal directed, endeavor of human activity. Some of this Leadership thinking is grounded in thoughtful argument. Also, some of this thinking about Leadership is grounded in an opinionated best guess kind of thought. Beyond these more common paths of pseudo-reasoning about the nature and scope of Leadership, some current thinking about Leadership has become downright mystical bordering on s special kind of spiritual conceptualization about the nature of Leadership as “transformative path to personhood".

Ouch! Simply thinking about this makes my head itch. All of this intellectual Leadership Stew may be interesting, but it does not address the essence of Leadership as it has continually emerged in human experience throughout the unfolding of its history. So much of the thinking about Leadership has indeed become so contradictory that it is anything but boring; but it can make your head spin a bit, even without a Martini at dinner time. It is time to get real about Leadership. Don’t you think? Let us go wider, deeper, and wider again. Let’s go back to where Leadership began, that is, Leadership from the dawn of History. Let’s begin our contemplation of Human History by returning to that time that most likely experienced the dawn of Historical Leadership, the Ancient time when Leadership actually emerged out of a dire human necessity.

I am what I refer to as a “Paleo-Leadership™” Specialist, a simple thinker who recognizes UlThule™ Leadership Mastery as the substance and goal of authentic Leadership action. You will not find much about this field anywhere else because I created it only a few years back. Since I really wanted to make sense of Leadership and understand it at a deeper level than normally presented in book stores and universities, business presentations and speeches, I had little choice but to go back, way, way back, to the very beginning when some person first thought about Leadership, Leaders, followers, and results in an organized, disciplined, and consistent kind of way. Following this, I then worked my way forward to the present Age of Leadership Thinking. It was quite a journey. In alphabetical order, it was an amazing, encouraging, frightening, fun, historical, insightful, interesting, life changing, rational, reasonable, scary, shocking, sincere, surprising, unexpected, youthful, and zigzag kind of adventure. But fun, sometimes!

Through this adventure, I have become the father of a new discipline, Paleo-Leadership. Imagine that! It is actually a very interesting endeavor and worth the effort. My Leadership Approach is simple. I refer to it as UlThule™ Leadership Mastery. It is all about performance beyond Peak Performance. Imagine, performance beyond “Peak Performance.”. This web environment is all about Paleo-Leadership and UlThule™ Leadership Mastery. It consists of ideas emerging at the crossroads of Philosophy, Theology, Psychology, Sociology, Politics, Behavioral Science, History, Management, Military Science, Spirituality, Religion, Cosmology, and a few more. I kid you not.

Leadership is really about how all of these conceptual realities come together to influence, inform, and guide a brand of human thinking and behavior that generates the emergence of what people commonly refer to as Leadership and what I refer to as Paleo-Leadership. So, enjoy this environment. It is fun to visit. You will rapidly see that this environment is much more than the simple sites all of us encounter every day. The content presented here is enough to form several books. Enjoy this environment. Become smarter, and for your teams of followers, become a UlThule™ Leader. - Ray Newkirk

“Every day is beautiful when we connect our minds with our hearts and contemplate the love we have experienced with those who come into our lives.”

—Ray Newkirk