The Autodidact’s Route to Becoming a Business Leader

Here is a roadmap and a compass

John Cousins
12 min readJun 22, 2018

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Becoming a well-rounded business leader and manager takes:

· Being able to apply a varied toolkit and skill sets,

· The ability to know when to apply what,

· How to assemble the mosaic of skill sets to accomplish a specific task or goal,

· A facility with the language, terminology and buzzwords of all the different disciplines.

The purpose of this article is to set the stage and lay out the context for achieving those goals.

Being an effective leader and manager means being able to communicate and be decisive. You need communication, both written and verbal, and decision-making skills.

In order to be effective you need this knowledge and a bias towards action.

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