The Ideas Worth Merit section is intended to provide academics and practitioners with backgrounds in leadership the opportunity to present new and thought provoking conceptual papers on this topic. Too often individuals with backgrounds and experiences in leadership are precluded from writing strictly academic papers, especially those in non-academic settings.   Ideas Worth Merit, in its desire to encourage thought provoking essays has created this section which is specifically devoted to conceptual essays on leadership.   The inclusion of conceptual essays in a peer-reviewed, academic journal, is, in the minds of the editors of Academic Leadership, critical to the development of the discipline.

Criteria for submission, with the exception of normal formatting issues (see submission guide), consists of articles (essays), not to exceed 2,500 words, on topics related to issues of leadership. The editor welcomes, and encourages, submissions from individuals both academic and non-academic, who have new ideas relating to leadership and experiences relating to leadership to seriously consider offering their thoughts for publication.

Papers on academic, business, educational or any other area where leadership, or lack of leadership, is demonstrated are welcomed and encouraged.