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11 COOPERATION. The successful leader must understand and apply the principle of the cooperative effort and being able to induce their followers to do the same. Leadership requires power and power requires cooperation. LEADERSHIP by consent or by force there two forms of leadership: the first and the most effective, is leadership by consent and with the support of the fans. The second is leadership by force without the consent and support of the fans. History is full of evidence of leadership strength that may not endure. The fall and disappearance of dictators and Kings is significant. This means that people will not follow the leadership by force indefinitely.
The world just entering a new era of relationships between leaders and followers, in which very clearly require new leaders and a new style of leadership in business and industry. Those who remain in the old school of leadership by force, must understand the new kind of leadership (cooperation) or be relegated to the rank and row of fans. There is no other output for them. In the future the relationship of employer and employee or leader and follower, be a relationship of mutual cooperation, based on a fair division of the profits of the business, in the future, the relationship of employer and employee, will be more like a partnership compared to what it was in the past. Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, the Tsar of Russia and the King of Spain were example of leadership by force. His leadership became. Without much difficulty one can point to the prototypes of these former between traders, financial and labor leaders of United States, that have been dethroned or placed on the floor to go. Leadership by consent of followers is the only style that can endure! Men can follow the leadership forced temporarily, but will not do so voluntarily. The new style of leadership will cover the eleven leadership factors described in this book, as well as other factors.