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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.