Was Napoleon Hill Wrong in 1937?

From my 1952 addition of Napoleon Hill’s 1937 book Think and Grow Rich: Chapter 7 Organized Planning The Crystallization of Desire Into Action (The Sixth Step to Riches).

?Beginning on page 159, Hill details “Some Fertile Fields In Which “New Leadership” Will Be Required”.

“First. In the Field of politics there is a most insistent demand for new leaders; a demand of which indicates nothing less than an emergency.

Second. The banking business is undergoing a reform. The leaders in this field have almost entirely lost the confidence of the public.

Third. Industry calls for new leaders. The old type of leaders thought and moved in terms of dividends instead of thinking and moving in terms of human equations. The future leader in industry, to endure, must regard himself as a quasi-public official whose duty it is to manage his trust in such a way that it will work hardship on no individual or group of individuals.

Fourth. The religious leader of the future will be forced to give more attention to the temporal needs of his followers, in the solution of their economic and personal problems of the present, and less attention to the dead past, and the yet unborn future.

Fifth. In the professions of law, medicine, and education, a new brand of leadership, and to some extent, new leaders will become a necessity. This is especially true in the field of education. The leader in that field must, in the future, find ways and means of teaching people HOW TO APPLY the knowledge they receive in school. He must deal more with PRACTICE and less with THEORY.

Sixth. New leaders will be required in the field of Journalism. Newspapers of the future, to be conducted successfully, must be divorced from “special privilege” and relieved from the subsidy of advertising. They must cease to be organs of propaganda for the interests which patronize their advertising columns. The type of newspaper which publishes scandal and lewd pictures will eventually go the way of all forces which debauch the human mind.

These are but a few of the fields in which opportunities for new leaders and a new brand of leadership are now available. The world is undergoing a rapid change. This means that the media through which the changes in human habits are promoted, must be adapted to the changes. The media here described, are the ones which, more than any others, determine the trend of civilization.”

Napoleon Hill’s 1937 predictions are accurate for 2024.

Was Hill wrong in his prediction or did he just create a self-fulfilling prophesy?

Was Hill correct and people did step up into leadership as he describes and we are simply in a down cycle or turning over of generational leadership?

“Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.” ~ Napoleon Hill