In your opinion, what management style produces the "best" leader?

Depends on what setting your talking about...

I'm a huge fan of "outcomes". Like I'll take 5 national championships to 1. Call me crazy

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A) The Nick Saban: process/details, relentless, outcomes, impersonal

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This, but add in a good personality and genuineness. You got all these—you rule the world, whatever field you’re in.

The Saban style doesn’t work everywhere. In a professional setting, maybe at some office, or as a principal, he would have to adapt. At Alabama, the buck stops with him. His system works to perfection there. But bringing that much intensity to every environment doesn’t work. You can’t work that way if you are a principal at an elementary school

The Les way obviously isn’t perfect. There doesn’t need to be any elaborating on it.

Both methods have their faults, and both can be highly successful.

Everything has a shelf life. Eventually the magic stops working for everybody. The lucky ones step down before it happens.

Bobby Knight is what happens when the Saban management style goes south.

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Hard to argue the success of The Saban, but is it sustainable and healthy?

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Is it sustainable?? Do you think Bama is a flash in the pan??

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Let's see where this discussion takes us.

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The School Principalship. Go.

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Is it sustainable?? Do you think Bama is a flash in the pan??

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Broaden your imagination. Saban was an example.

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Broaden your imagination. Saban was an example.

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Well the example you gave shows that it is sustainable. It comes down to the leader. Not their style. People can me effective in many different ways

C) The kind of small business owner - I don't know, let's say he owns a roofing company - that trusts his employees enough to use whatever tactics are necessary to get the deal done.