Recruiter.com offered a review of Samuel Bacharach’s volume, The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough.
When we picture leaders – the real movers and shakers of the world, whether they be political figures, lauded innovators, or even a great teacher you had in school – we tend to think of them as larger-than-life personages whose charisma and sheer brilliance allowed them to make massive strides in their fields.
But according to Samuel Bacharach, cofounder and director of program development at the SoHo-based leadership consultancy Bacharach Leadership Group (BLG), that’s all bunk.
“You can have all the talent in the world, all the charisma, whatever – it won’t do you any good if you can’t actually move your agenda forward,” Bacharach says. “All the good ideas you have – unless you have some of the fundamental micropolitical competencies you need to move the agenda, it doesn’t matter.”
