This chapter focuses on what leaders do in practice that would promote business effectiveness. A lot of research has been done in this direction. Researchers first examined how leaders make decisions with the idea that leaders' decision making style make have different business implications.

Question 1: What are the four decision making styles of leaders? Provide a ranking that lists those four styles from least to highest leader control.

There has also been research on what leaders do on a daily basis. This stream of research in championed by scholars from Ohio State University. They conclude that leaders primarily engage in two types of behaviors in daily management.

Question 2: Briefly describe the two day-to-day behaviors leaders tend to perform. Provide some detailed description.

Leadership research predominantly focus on seeking the best leadership practices. The product this stream of research is the concept of transformational leadership.

Question 3: Define transformational leadership. What are the four typical behaviors performed by transformational leaders?