Mike:
Well done. This article is confused on so many levels as you and others have already said. What the "turnaround ace" is describing is not "benevolent dictatorship" but tyranny of the worst variety. There is no benevolence involved. It is only an inner focus with only incidental "rewards" for others. One of the problems with this article is the binary thinking it reflects. The only other option to the "benevolent dictatorship" he describes is not a "lovey-dovey approach." It is the extremes that so often get us into trouble. He did succeed in shock-value and perhaps that is where some turnaround aces excel.