 So why are we even debating this issue? Here's the problem You pick up any any book any article any research on leadership either online or In a bookstore any place you go and if you look at leadership styles At chances are that it will be singing the praises of all-inclusive Democratic I love you all Consensus building leadership styles. That's the way to go most of the literature says Right they say if you want to go fast go alone if you want to go far take a lot of people with you build consensus Etc. Etc. Etc teamwork collaboration all that and yet you see examples like Steve Jobs You see examples like Jeff Bezos Elon Musk and Lee Kuan Yew Who rocked the history of the planet by doing the exact opposite by being autocrats? So which one is true all the literature that you see the popular literature on leadership or these examples that I just shared So Richard, let me bring you in. What do you think? What you're really saying Here it comes Well hang on You are saying that these great men and women Who led to such magnificent advancements? Were nothing more than Personal dictators. I didn't say personal dictators. No, I'm I'm paraphrasing. Okay, okay So you're saying they are personal dictators and therefore they are bad examples. I am saying that you are cherry picking Okay, you are choosing Examples that best serve your purpose All right, and I am challenging you sir To justify your position. Okay. Here goes. So it's The thing is it is it is a problem, right? These are two polarizing ideas. We thought let's ask the world Why should I fight with him and he fight with me? Why don't we ask the whole world? So we asked people a bunch of questions in 28 countries Here are the set of questions that we asked We said, what do great leaders have in common? That was the first question. Okay, so you asked for justification It's coming up. We showed them profiles of some great leaders By the way, the reason you see a ring around a certain person in one my slide is because three years ago When we did the research she qualified in our opinion as one of the great leaders But now we have question marks and hence in some of my slides you have rings Because this is that these are two or three year old. Anyway, see these kinds of leaders We showed people the profiles of these people You know some are business leaders some are societal some are political and we asked them What do such great leaders have in common and we gave them a set of behaviors or leadership Attributes to choose from you don't have to read each one of them But just know that the pink ones were my way of the high sorry pink ones Well, I love you all all inclusive democratic leadership behaviors and the blue ones were my way of the highway Autocratic behaviors and we asked them to choose the top three commonalities that such leaders have okay Which ones do you think ended up on top the blue ones or the pink ones? The pink The blue how many people say blue how many people say how many people say blue Okay, how many people say pink Okay, so it's about a 60 40 split Here's the data all the blue ones ended up on the top The whole world at least the 28 countries sample that we used says Autocratic leadership is what made these people great Now can you imagine when we shared this data with my colleagues all hell broke lose at the office Some even threatened to quit is this what Eclipse stands for are we going to tell people to legitimize their bad behavior? So well, let's check this one more time. So we asked the second question What do business leaders today need to do in order to create breakthrough results and guess what? All the blue ones on the top again Whoa twice we asked the question slightly differently, but we get the same answer What does this even mean that you know we the politically correct thing to say is that we need democratic inclusion? Give me a minute Whereas deep down we have the urge To have a leader who knows exactly what to do and be autocratic. Is that what this means? We said well before we go to the world with this Let's check it one last time and we asked a third question This time we ask a yes or no question is a significant amount of bold top-down autocratic leadership needed to create breakthrough results in today's age of speed and Look at this 75% of our people of our database agreed or strongly agreed and the best part is there was no Difference and no exceptions by country. Look at this These are all the 28 countries that we surveyed and the green bars are the ones who said the percentage of people in each Country that say agree or strongly agree So here Richard is the proof that people agree that autocratic leadership is needed in today's world