
Leadership: 8 Archetypes Explained
BY WILL YAKOWICZ
A company's success depends on putting together a leadership team that possesses complementary skills. That first requires identifying what type of leader you are.
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, the author of The Hedgehog Effect: The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams, says that many leaders fail because they do not have a team of top executives who complement their weaknesses.
Kets de Vries, a leadership development professor at INSEAD, the international business school, studies executives and their patterns of behavior, and has come up with eight different leadership archetypes. The skills associated with each archetype must be aligned with the...