DKV, I don't know. I agree with you. This concept called "leadership" can be viewed in many different ways. If you take one definition of what occurred during Jesus's time, you could say he was a failure.

But in other definitions, say influence on the world, he definitely had success. But I suspect the author is really looking only at the one definition because that is what is being promoted at religious institutions and he wants to make the point that the traditional concept of leadership isn't what Jesus is about. I mean Jesus may have been a failure at cooking as well but is that really important?