Within the three structures of organizations, thee three kinds of leadership reside. All important, but dramatically out of balance in most organizations we know:
Compliance Leadership - emerging from Formal Structure.
Social Leadership - emerging from Informal Structure.
Value Creation Leadership - emerging from Value Creation Structure.
Following this thought, there is not "leadership". But "leaderships". Just like the three structures they emerge from, these types of leadership are interdependent and complex, not independent or linear. In the presence of too much hierarchy, or formal power, the two other kinds of leadership are actually quite impossible to happen: Social density and connection will deteriorate. Members of the organization will find it harder to get the work done, while they game fhe formal structure and its complicated mechanics of steering and control. Organizational energy is wasted on bureaucracy (Formal Structure), and self-defence against command-and-control from the top, carried out within Informal Structure.
Via David Hain