
6 brilliant leader
As we progress through the chapters that follow, we’ll be
looking at examples of which style is most applicable in different
situations.
Competency based leadership
A great indicator for which leadership style to apply and which
leadership actions are required is to begin by considering what
your people are capable of. For example, if you have an expert
computer programmer who is capable of creating a fully func-
tioning database in a day, it is reasonable to expect them to do
so. However, if you have a less experienced programmer who can
produce a database to the same specication but, because they
have to refer to manuals ...