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What is leadership? – Business News Daily

Nicole Fallon sifts through a number of sources to describe the rules, definitions, and implications surrounding the word “leader”. She references Richard Hytner’s book Consigilieri: Leading from the Shadows — 

Leaders can’t stand alone. “The out-and-out leader in today’s volatile and uncertain business environment had better not distance him or herself from the heat of the action. Demonstrating the competence to assess, decide and execute in a growing business drives confidence in the leader. Similarly, a great leader of an enterprise stands on the shoulders not of ‘managerial Muppets’ who obediently do as they are directed but of other leadership giants who have different and complementary leadership skills. A business with only one leader will remain forever a small business.” – Richard Hytner, deputy chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide, an adjunct professor of marketing at London Business School 

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