Whether you are new to managing employees or are looking to improve your leadership skills, understanding how the main styles work and what they accomplish is vital. Styles of leadership are dependent ...

Back in the days when you were working for someone else, you probably had time to attend business conferences and seminars. You may have enjoyed them and learned so much that you promised yourself ...

Effective leadership starts with acknowledging that different situations call for different leadership styles. The practice of “leadership”—influencing behavior to achieve a desired result—encompasses ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Leadership is tricky business. There are an infinite number of approaches and styles, unique to each individual leader, but not every ...

No matter how small a business, it needs a management style that is clear, decisive and makes sense to all employees. While there are numerous views on management styles in general, for a small ...

Just as the Big Five Personality Traits model helps identify key dimensions of personality—like openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness—successful leadership today requires understanding and ...

One is the style of setting an example or the do-as-I-do style. The manager establishes precedent by setting basic rules and procedures and then following those rules himself. If, for example, he ...

Featuring Suzanne J. Peterson, Associate Professor of Leadership at the Thunderbird School of Global Management; Partner at CRA, a leadership consulting and advisory firm; and Coauthor of the recent ...

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Transactional leadership is falling behind. One leadership style that is increasingly irrelevant in this new era is transactional leadership. Focused on rigid structures, task monitoring, and ...