Christ in the context of organizational leadership

So I've had a big change of environments of late. Small, Christ-centered intentional community in Argentina to relatively large college campus with a wide range of beliefs where knowledge and the pursuit of it mostly prevails.

Thus far, my one class and the material related to it has been very interesting and though provoking. One thing I see missing though is where does Christ fit into the context of organizational and individual leadership.

He's not talked about or mentioned at all.

The argument could be made, "well, all that religious stuff has no basis, it's just religion and the like..." Well, I'd disagree. From a purely academic study, let's say, non-bias viewpoint, I think one could make a fairly substantial argument that Christ is the leader of the longest-standing, most numerous, most complex, sometimes controversial yes, organization the WORLD has ever seen. Looking at the sheer numbers and the historical numbers over time, I think it could be statistically proven without a doubt that Christ is the most outstanding leader the world has ever seen, and His church, once again, when done inline with Scripture's outlays for how the church should truly be, the most enduring and life-giving/sustaining organization that exists.

Even in the sea of multiple competing thoughts and ideologies, Jesus comes out on top.

So how does this fit in to nowadays? Very much so. The principles that Christ taught and lived are very much applicable to organizations nowadays.

Do we dare in organizations, be they academic or corporate, to attempt servant-like mentalities in all our tasks and the directions in which the institutions are going? Would it just be too crazy to attempt to lead like Christ led, and set up our organizations according to the structures and principles we find in Scripture?

I'm not really surprised I haven't seen this talked about yet in my classes or around campus. I don't really expect it to happen. But is somebody missing a big huge elephant in the room? Is it just too good to be true, although it is true?

Two great books as a starting place on this regarding individual leadership, but that has relevance in organizations, are Henri Nouwen's In the name of Jesus and a more corporate look in Ken Blanchard's Lead like Jesus.

"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."

Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength

Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

(1 Corinthians 1:18-31 NIV)