12.6. LEADERSHIP THAT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE
Nevertheless the interactive approach to leadership will not appeal to everyone.
It will be of little interest to those who are comfortable in the traditional management mode of command and control. Nor is it likely to attract robber barons, hardball strategists, upwardly mobile lackeys, fawning aides-de-camp, commercial mercenaries, paid-for politicians, or scheming demagogues. Such people have always used inauthentic narrative as a tool of manipulation and control. They have no need to be taught how to tell the quick lie, or how to profit from the devices of the shyster and the shill like foot-in-the-door or bait-and-switch, or how to deceive with political spin, character assassination, and negative ...
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