Sublime

Before LMX theory, researchers treated leadership as something leaders did toward followers in a collective way, as a group, using an average leadership style. LMX theory challenged this assumption and directed researchers’ attention to the differences that might exist between the leader and each of the leader’s followers.

Fourth, the power is felt in the growth of the people. In an organization that is attending, inhibiting, and remembering, people are forced to grow. There is a focus and there are clear standards of performance, with clear expectations that come from reality. But in organizations where no one is driving attention, inhibition, and remembering,

Leaders make mistakes. That is an occupational hazard of the role. Managers follow the rules, but leaders find themselves in situations for which there are no rules.

Usually the more leadership ability a person has, the more quickly he recognizes leadership—or its lack—in others.