Covey believes that leaders with character are most effective. Effective leaders are proactive, goal oriented, and focus their time on what is important. Leaders are shown how to develop principles for guiding personal and professional growth. Leadership as an Art. DePree challenges the notion that leadership is a science of a discipline to be practiced.
Leadership is more of an art meant to be felt, experienced, created.
He emphasizes trust, grace, spirit, and love as concerns at the heart of any organization. The Situational Leader . A model of how the situation rather than the leader's personality or permanent style determines leadership style. Leaders who are committed to developing people are on the path of excellence. Kouzes, James M. and Barry Z. Posner.