- This leader would scan encyclopedia entries before meeting with guests so he could drop obscure facts into the conversation and create the impression that no subject was beyond his grasp.
- This leader usually decided on a course of action by intuition, then assembled facts that would persuade his associates that the course was logically correct.
- This leader use a formal hierarchy to process staff papers but he also had secret channels into the depths of the organization so he didn't have to rely on filtered information.
- This leader liked to buzz for his associates then hide under his desk.
- This leader was surprised when he announced a course of action and his associates wanted to stay and discuss it.
- This leader was so fond of the expression "There is no alternative" that her associates shortened it to TINA.
- This leader held conversations with his associates while he was sitting on the toilet.
- This leader was a former HR director who'd used that position to place his supporters in key jobs.
- This leader used to give associates the same assignment to see which one would prevail.
- This leader set aside time each week when he would not speak.
[Answers: 1. Benito Mussolini; 2. Adolf Hitler; 3. Dwight Eisenhower; 4. Calvin Coolidge; 5. The Duke of Wellington; 6. Margaret Thatcher; 7. Lyndon B. Johnson; 8. Joseph Stalin; 9. Franklin D. Roosevelt; 10. Mahatma Gandhi.]
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Johnson.
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