5 Leadership Styles and the One that Outperforms Them

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Lead Change, a division of Weaving Influence, publishes twice monthly with SmartBrief. Today’s post is by John Eades.

One of your direct reports disregards a rule. What do you do?

Do you let it slide because they’re a top performer, make excuses for them, or even fire them to send a message to your team?

The answer comes down to how well you leverage two critical components of leadership: love and discipline.Over the last three years, our research team has studied over 40,000 organizational leaders in all different leadership roles to determine exactly how love and discipline in one’s leadership approach influenced effectiveness. Five clear-cut leadership styles emerged; but one style proved to outperform the others both in performance and praise from their people.