business and industry. Those who belong to the old school of leadership-by-force,
must acquire an understanding of the new brand of leadership (cooperation) or be
relegated to the rank and file of the followers. There is no other way out for them.
The relationship of employer and employee, or of leader and follower, in the
future, will be one of mutual cooperation, based upon an equitable division of the
profits of business. In the future, the relationship of employer and employee will
be more like a partnership than it has been in the past.
Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, the Czar of Russia, and the King of Spain
were examples of leadership by force. Their leadership passed. Without much
difficulty, one might point to the prototypes of these ex-leaders, among the business,
financial, and labor leaders of America who have been dethroned or slated to go.
Leadership-by-consent of the followers is the only brand which can endure!
Men may follow the forced leadership temporarily, but they will not do so
willingly.
The new brand of LEADERSHIP will embrace the eleven factors of leadership,
described in this chapter, as well as some other factors. The man who makes these
the basis of his leadership, will find abundant opportunity to lead in any walk of
life. The depression was prolonged, largely, because the world lacked LEADERSHIP