Advantages
Disadvantages
Characteristics
Leaders
General
100

Focus on employees' strengths and improvement over time.  

Coaching

100

No input or feedback from experienced employees. 

Autocratic
100

Ability for someone to accept responsibility. 

Accountability

100

Charismatic German leader who motivated others to commit evil acts. 

Adolf Hilter

100

How well people get along with others.

Human Relation Skills

200

Leader is inspirational and able to make a personal connection with employees. 

Charismatic

200

Decision-making process is slow because of input and discussion.

Democratic

200

Admits to mistakes and apologizes when necessary. 

Humility

200

Founder of Amazon who often utilizes the autocratic style of leadership. 

Jeff Bezos

200

Power given to people because of their superior knowledge. 

Expert Power

300
Decision-making is quick with this style due to adherence to policy and procedure. 

Bureaucratic

300

Inexperienced workers do not receive attention and supervision. 

Delegative

300

Understanding and seeing things from another person's perspective. 

Empathy

300

Delegative leader, chairman, and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. 

Warren Buffet

300

Confidence and enthusiasm shown by a group at any given time. 

Morale

400

Leader builds a framework of trust and loyalty using a family-type atmosphere. 

Paternalistic

400
Leader prioritizes employees over business objectives and production. 

Servant

400

Ability to recover quickly from setbacks. 

Resilence

400
Democratic leader and CEO of Apple. 

Tim Cook

400

Ability to respond and change responses based on a situation. 

Adaptability

500

Inspiring and innovative approach to leadership that focuses on growth of the employees and the company.  

Transformational

500

Style uses extrinsic motivators and as a result it encourages the bare minimum of work.  

Transactional

500

Being open and honest with people to build trust.

Transparency

500

Business woman known as the "Queen of Mean".

Leone Hemsley

500

Skill to effectively assign tasks to subordinates. 

Delegate