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the excuses leaders give for how they wield power without saying 'power'.
means a management style is the consistent pattern of how someone directs, decides, and treats people while getting work out of them.
from the field crystallized post-WWII, when Kurt Lewin's 1939 experiments on boy leadership groups labeled three types — authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire — and business schools have been renaming them ever since.
lewin's trio1939 study literally used boys building masks
servant leadershipcoined by an AT&T exec, not a monk
laissez-faireoften just absenteeism wearing a nicer suit
situational modelsays the 'right' style changes by employee, weekly