Consensus is the negation of leadership.
- Topic: Leadership
- Location: Mexico, Playa Del Carmen
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.