Leadership for Intelligence Professionals   

Types of Leaders and Styles of Leadership

(March 2009)

Textbook Readings (If available) 

Types of Leaders:

In The Leader's Companion, read:

-Chapter 2, “The Crisis of Leadership” by James MacGregor Burns.

-Chapter 4, “Servant Leadership” by Robert K. Greenleaf..

-Chapter 19, “Transactional and Transforming Leaders” by James MacGregor Burns.
-Chapter 20, “The Transformation of Transforming Leadership”, by Richard A. Couto.

In Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service, read:

            -Chapter 1, “Dominant Themes in the Leadership Mainstream”, pages 5-10 and 11.

            -Chapter 10, “Early Management and Leadership Approaches”, 308-333.

            -Chapter 11, “Leadership Theories: Charismatic and Transformational Approaches”, pages 334-357.  

            -Chapter 12, “Super Leadership”, pages 361 and 363 and “Shared Leadership, pages 372-373.

In The Powers to Lead read:

            -Chapter 3, “Types and Skills” to page 69.

Styles of Leadership:

In The Leader's Companion, read:

            -Chapter 25, “Behavioral Theories of Leadership”, by Paul Hersey and Kenneth H. Blanchard.
            -Chapter 32, “Situational Leadership”, by Paul Hersey and Kenneth H. Blanchard.

In Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service, read:

            -Chapter 1, “What is the Best Style to Use?”, pages 19-20.

            -Chapter 7, “Consulting”, pages 192-196.

            -Chapter 9, “Types of Leader Styles”, pages 286-304.

-Chapter 10, “Blake and Mouton’s Grid Theory” and “Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership”, pages 313-318.     

Supplemental Article Readings  (All are accessable via library-held electronic databases such as Proquest, Ebsco, Infotrac.) 

Leadership Types

         -“Directors of Central Intelligence” in Studies in Intelligence Vol. 49, No. 3. (2005).

         -“Balanced Leaders” by Terry Bacon in Leadership Excellence,  June 2008.

Charismatic Leaders

            -“Charismatic Leadership: Costs and Benefits” by Commander James J. Tritten, USN and David M. Keithly from Military Review, January/February

            1996.

            -“Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons” by Michael Maccoby in Harvard Business Review January 2004.

- “Charisma” by Anthony H. Smith in Leadership Excellence, June 2007.

- “Charisma Power” by Kurt Mortensen in Leadership Excellence October 2008.  

Transformational Leaders

(See below, “For Military”)

Style

            -“Great Ideas Revisited” by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard in Training and Development January 1996.

            -“Situational Leadership” by Ken Blanchard in Leadership Excellence May 2008.

            -“The Ways Chief Executives Lead”, by Charles M. Farkas and Suzy Wetlaufer in Harvard Business Review, May-June 1996.

            -“Leadership That Gets Results” by Daniel Goleman in Harvard Business Review, March/April 2000.

            -“Leading for Results” by Wolf Rinke in Executive Excellence 12 March 2001.
            -"Trust as a Style" by Victor Buzzotta in Executive Excellence, May 2001.

What to Avoid

         -"The Controlling Leader" By Col. Lloyd J. Matthews USA (Ret.) in Army, April 1996.
         -"Toxic Leadership" by Col. George E. Read USA in Military Review, July-August 2004. 

For Military

            -“A Situational Leadership Model for Military Leaders” by Col Donald E. Waddell      III, USAF from Air Power Journal, Fall 1994.

            -“Situational Leadership” by Major George W. Yeakley, U.S. Army (Ret.) in Military Review, February 2002.

             -“Understanding and Applying Transformational Leadership” by Major Kevin S Donohue, USA and Major Leonard Wong, USA from Military

              Review August 1994.

            -"Transformational Leaders and Doctrine in an Age of Peace" by Major William C. Rynecki, USAFR in the Airpower Journal, Spring 1998.

            -“Winning with a Range of Leadership” by Bruce J, Avollo in Military Review March-April 2001.