Leadership: What type of leader are you?
Task-oriented or people-oriented? Democratic or autocratic? Hands-on or laissez-faire? Often descriptions like this are artificially dichotomous.
An analysis of managers’ and executives’ actual skill profiles reveals four real-world leadership types that aren’t so black-and-white.
In the latest white paper issued by The Korn/Ferry Institute, The leadership reality check, authored by Evelyn Orr and Guangrong Dai of the Research and Development Group, uncovered that these four primary patterns of leadership account for 70 percent of managers and executives. Further, each type has its own strengths and weaknesses that play out in different ways on the job.
An electronic version of the paper is available to read and download here.