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161 LEADERSHIP BY CONSENT of, and with the sympathy of the followers. The
162 second is LEADERSHIP BY FORCE, without the consent and sympathy of the
163 followers.
164 History is filled with evidences that Leadership by Force cannot endure. The
165 downfall and disappearance of "Dictators" and kings is significant. It means that
166 people will not follow forced leadership indefinitely.
167 The world has just entered a new era of relationship between leaders and
168 followers, which very clearly calls for new leaders, and a new brand of leadership
169 in business and industry. Those who belong to the old school of leadership-by-
170 force, must acquire an understanding of the new brand of leadership
171 (cooperation) or be relegated to the rank and file of the followers. There is no
172 other way out for them.
173 The relationship of employer and employee, or of leader and follower, in the
174 future, will be one of mutual cooperation, based upon an equitable division of
175 the profits of business. In the future, the relationship of employer and employee
176 will be more like a partnership than it has been in the past.
177 Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, the Czar of Russia, and the King of
178 Spain were examples of leader ship by force. Their leadership passed. Without
179 much difficulty, one might point to the prototypes of these ex-leaders, among
180 the business, financial, and labor leaders of America who have been dethroned
181 or slated to go. Leadership-by-consent of the followers is the only brand which
182 can endure!
183 Men may follow the forced leadership temporarily, but they will not do so
184 willingly.
185 The new brand of LEADERSHIP will embrace the eleven factors of leadership,
186 described in this chapter, as well as some other factors. The man who makes
187 these the basis of his leadership, will find abundant opportunity to lead in any
188 walk of life. The depression was prolonged, largely, because the world lacked
189 LEADERSHIP of the new brand. At the end of the depression, the demand for