What’s the most effective leadership style? It depends on who you ask.
Kurt Lewin, the psychologist most closely identified with social psychology, posited that all management styles can be broken down into two categories: task-oriented leadership and people-oriented leadership.
Best-selling author Gregg Ward posits a third category: respectful leadership. Ward recently launched the Center for Respectful Leadership to make respectful leadership development initiatives more accessible, and to help businesses understand the ways respectful leadership will have a positive impact on their value propositions.
