That’s what a good leader does, because good leaders are governed by a set of guiding principles and core ideas. In his book Leadership, Rudy Giuliani makes this point well in regard to his own leadership:
Great leaders lead by ideas. Ideology is enormously important when running any large organization.
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My goal as a leader was to apply my beliefs and philosophy to real-world situations. As mayor, I insisted that everyone on my staff should concentrate on the core purpose of whichever agency or division we oversaw.
In politics, even more than in business, the reply to queries is far too often “Because we’ve always done it this way.” My goal was to move the agenda forward with every action, to back strong beliefs with specific plans of action.