The idea that you can govern a company through genius leaders, genius followers, and as few rules as possible is at the heart of "How Google Works"; but, over the long haul, it isn't how Google will be able to work.
The 36-year-old described the Scot he played under for 11 of his 12 seasons at Manchester United as a genius – a leader who made him "a man" and helped him finish his career with six Premier League titles, the Champions League, three League Cups, the Uefa Super Cup and the Fifa Club World Cup.
Your mission: hunt down Dr. Edgar Simon, maniacal genius and leader of his own mutant army.
The technological and organizational genius of leaders like Gates and Zuckerberg can bring tremendous contributions to the improvement of social welfare.
We can certainly look at the documentation of the very strong and active sex lives of many geniuses, creators, leaders and entrepreneurs of the past and present.
Obviously, the passages detailing how adroitly he manipulated his group do not exactly square with his impassioned renunciations of the roles of evil genius and charismatic leader.
Having served seven years as a scout for the Mongols, he's well aware of the strength of their forces and the genius of their leader.
They have been drawn to his genius as a leader and the ill-fitting components of that genius – his misgivings as an imperialist, his tortured sexuality, and that compound of arrogance and self-effacement ("backing into the limelight", as someone put it, allegedly Churchill) that has kept his soul satisfyingly open to interpretation.
Of Sinatra's first big break, as Harry James's vocalist, Kaplan writes: "The singer was a genius, the trumpeter-leader a kind of genius.
