Redefining leadership
Since TIME’s founding, by a pair of 20-somethings, we’ve known leadership has no age requirement One of my favorite stories from TIME’s history goes like this: As 1927 came to an end, the editors seized the chance to correct a serious oversight. They had failed to put Charles Lindbergh on the cover to recognize the 25-year-old’s remarkable solo flight over the Atlantic, which he’d completed that May. On what was otherwise a slow news week, they gave themselves a mulligan, and for the first issue of 1928 named Lindbergh “Man of the Year,” creating what became one of the most iconic franchises in journalism—what we know today as TIME Person of the Year. Lindbergh remained the youngest individual to receive the recognition until 2019, when 16-year-old Greta Thunberg was named Person of…