Which style of the nine types of leader do you prefer?

The nine types of leaderships are:

Transformational leadership

Transactional leadership

Servant leadership

Autocratic leadership Democratic leadership

Bureaucratic leadership

Charismatic leadership

Situational leadership

Laissez-faire leadership

I prefer the last as it suites software development environment.

More commonly used to describe economic environments, laissez-faire literally means “let them do” in French. This is typically translated to “let it be”. As such, laissez-faire leaders are characterised by their hands-off approach, allowing employees to get on with tasks as they see fit.

This can be effective in creative jobs or workplaces where employees are very experienced. However, it is important that leaders monitor performance and effectively communicate expectations to prevent work standards slipping.

The "nine types of leaderships" sounds like something somebody made up to sell their book.  It's not real.  There are as many or few types of leadership as you want.

Everybody is different.  Every leader is different.  If you want to categorise leaders, or followers, or people in general into types, good for you.  It can provide a useful framework for thinking about a topic but it doesn't really mean anything.

However this has give me the ideas for my next three books:-

"The nine types of men - a guide for people who have never met a man"

"The eight types of people over5 foot3 inches"

"The ten types of IT support worker, and how being able to identify them in the first fourteen seconds WILL make or break your career"

For a "type" of something to be real, there has to be an important difference.  For example, in our solar system there are two types of planet (small and rocky, big and gaseous).  It's really obvious which type a particular planet belongs to, the differences are very important, and you can tell which type a planet is instantly.   It's very hard to have nine types of anything - it's just too many to be useful.

Types of leader can never be useful because leaders are individual people. A leader might fulfill out of characteristics of a "type" but not theth, and if it's thatth characteristic that is important today then your categorisation system is not just useless, it's actively dangerous.  Even if the leader fulfills all, she might change tomorrow. 

Additionally, for a "type" to be useful it has to readily identifiable.  That is to say, for a leadership type to be useful you must be able to tell which type a leader is - with% accuracy - without meeting them, and on the basis of only a few pieces of information.  If the information is to come from meeting them, then you must be able to tell within a matter of seconds of saying hallo. 

Whenever you read a book or article with a title like "the X types of Y" always remember that it's not real.  The book may contain lots of useful things, and may or may not be a good tool for helping you learn about and understand a certain aspect of the world, but the "X of Y" part is just a  marketing hook to encourage you buy it. 

I 'am specialized in workplace leadership and exactly the Michigan Model of Leadership there is no type of leadership everyone can be a leader , so to be clear  leadership is not defined as a position or title. Instead, it is a set of actions that anyone can engage in regardless of where they sit in an organisational hierarchy ,at any time, each of us can choose to be and act as a leader. Second, effective leaders do not lead by commanding compliance of others. Instead, effective leaders empower, challenge, and support others to accomplish shared goals. In this sense, leadership is not something you do to people, but rather is about how you work through other people to enable excellence. Third, effective leaders are acutely aware of their personal strengths and how to leverage those strengths to bring out the best in themselves and others. No leader is perfect. All leaders have weaknesses, but the effective ones understand how to complement their weaknesses and leverage their strengths to enable their own and others’ best selves. These assumptions are important because they make leadership accessible to people young and old, with power and without it. Leadership is a choice, and all of us can choose to lead.

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Thank you for the invitation. Kindly let us release from systematic style of the nine types of leader. Instead of that let your question to ask anyone which type of the leader he prefers as characteristics ?

My answer as : I prefer a leader who is a flexible and innovative man and has high capability to listen and take right decision in time.

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Transformation leadership is my preferred style of leadership since it suits changing business dynamics

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_______I agree mr Ihab zaki

Thanks for the invitation. I agree with the experts answers.

The Leadership Style solely depends upon the type of the industry but i would personally prefer Charismatic style of  Leadership.. 

There are around 15 types of leadership styles and out of those 15, I personally prefer " Democratic Leadership style "  .