Commentary Recently, unasked, I received an advertisement for a Harvard Business School program in leadership, including something called thought leadership. Why me? Am I a thought leader? Could I be a thought leader? Do I want to be a thought leader? Do I want people one day to wave in unison the little blue book of Dalrymple-thought, chanting for example one of my most original ideas, namely that it is nearly time for lunch? Alas, I am too old now to become a thought-leader, and in any case not rich enough to afford the $84,000 fee ($12,000 a week) to enable me to do so. Furthermore, I do not really qualify for the course. I am not a “senior executive who holds a leadership position one or two levels from the CEO and has been identified as central to the company’s succession plans.” This all sounds to me a bit …