There is an assignment (due Jan 31) on leadership. You may find these resources helpful:Leadership takes many forms and has been studied for a long time. The most often used classification of leadership styles comes from the early work of Lewin, Lippitt, and White published in 1939. This has generated multiples studies on effectiveness of leadership styles. While the original work was rooted in psychology, management literature took hold of it and turned it into an industry.Lewin, K., Lippitt, R., & White, R. K. (1939). Patterns of aggressive behavior in experimentally created “social climates”. The Journal of social psychology, 10(2), 269-299.You can use different websites to assess your own style of leadership style (each site has a slightly different take on it):https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/leadership-style-quiz.htmhttps://www.verywellmind.com/whats-your-leadership-style-3866929https://www.idealist.org/en/careers/quiz-leadership-stylehttps://www.playbuzz.com/thelearninghouse10/what-kind-of-leader-are-youAll these are
based on ideas originating in the Lewin et al (1939) paper with 3 common styles.Other typologies were developed, like the Logical, Imaginative, Commander, Supportive one. You can also complete a questionnaire to see where you fit in that typology (and see how to interpret the results) using the two linkages below:https://gbr.pepperdine.edu/2010/08/discovering-leadership-potential/https://gbr.pepperdine.edu/2010/08/leadership-a/The leadership literature has flourished in management literature and took many forms. Some started to differentiate leadership as “what the leader is” and looked at “what leaders do”.https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/leadership/decoding-leadership-what-really-mattersYou can find online typologies with 3, 4, 5, … all the way to 10 styles.it is important to understand that each classification of leadership style helps understand a facet of “leadership”, but that what we expect from leaders is rapidly changing.https://gbr.pepperdine.edu/2017/04/trends-in-leadership-and-leadership-development/