CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCING THE MANDATE DRIVEN LEADER
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
—JACK WELCH, former Chairman and CEO, General Electric
Teaching leadership skills and principles in itself is a large business. And most consultants and business schools teach consensus building and management as the core foundation of leadership. In fact, in many companies, the concept of achieving consensus has achieved a sacrosanct status. But truth be told, consensus-driven leadership is, in fact, a root cause of many a failed business.
Consensus can be defined ...
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