Throughout history there has always been a widely accepted (at the time) leadership style, as well as new (at the time) leadership style. The most successful leaders were flexible enough to balance their approach between the two. This article nicely describes the tension between traditional leadership and the emerging model with vast applications in today animal health market.
Source: Harvard Business Review, February 20, 2020. Link. . . . any leader who relies solely on positional authority will run into trouble; business, technology, and workforce expectations are changing much too quickly for that approach to be sustainable. But at the same time, any leader who fails to strive for perfection, who never tells and only listens, and who shares but never holds power, will also struggle to be effective.
INSIGHTS: All leadership is situational, so if you seek an answer to which approach is right for your situation the best answer is, “it depends.”