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Ultimately 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.

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.

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.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

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

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

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.