https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/truth-leadership-styles-niels-pflaeging/
Leadership styles aren't what you think they are
The great Kurt Lewin was the first, in the late 1930s, to distinguish leadership styles: Authoritarian, Democratic and Laissez-faire. So far, so good. But guess what: Two of these "styles" have nothing to do with leadership, really. Zip. Zero. Nothing.
By Niels Pflaeging