[TechRepublic] Can an autocratic leadership style work?

March 20, 2009

TechRepublic Daily Digest Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online | Manage my newsletters Welcome: TechRepublic Member Update my profile | Unsubscribe from this mail Blogs | Photos | Downloads | Forums Can an autocratic leadership style work? Coaching, rather than managing, employees is the prevailing management "style." The autocratic approach to leadership seems outdated. Career blogger Toni Bowers asks, "Is there a still a place for the one-way leadership model?" Realistically, which style of managing do you think is the most successful? Subscribe to TechRepublic's Career Management RSS Feed SponsoredCOMPARE YOUR SALARY HERE activeTechPros - For IT professionals Join the community and use the real-time salary charts to find out average salaries of IT professionals from around the world. activeBizPros - A new salary comparison site for business professionals Be a member and help power the salary charts that we are building now. What's happening at work? Job hunting: Put a new spin on 'old' How to manage the people who manage you 10 ways to be a good manager during a recession Bookmark the Career Management blog Geekend Picks of the Week Video: What if you RAIDed 24 solid-state hard drives together? You can open every app in Office 2007 in under one second, and you can boot HD movies from the hard drive faster than from a DVD. It's insane, impractical, and self-serving, but I want one. Poll: What sci-fi character would make best use of government bailout funds? What character from science fiction, comic books, and the like could make best use of the near trillion-dollar bailout fund from Uncle Sam? Certainly, even a supervillain would be smarter with public largesse than the idiots at AIG, right? Photos: Terrafugia's flying car flies n February 2006, a start-up called Terrafugia, led by a gaggle of MIT types, unveiled plans to build an aviation novelty--a flying car. Earlier this month, the company got its Transition vehicle off the ground for its maiden flight. At SXSW, Dorkbot fetes geekery At South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on Saturday night, hundreds of attendees turned out for Dorkbot, a celebration of makers and electronic geekery that takes place in cities around the world. Its motto is "People doing strange things with electricity." Spark Nano: A tiny GPS device The Spark Nano is a GPS tracking device that's about the size of a 9-volt battery that can be tracked via a Web site and has a panic button for wearer to alert people about their whereabouts. Photos: Step-by-step to geek chic In her new book, "Fashion Geek," former Project Runway contestant Diana Eng shows would-be crafters how to make their own techno-garb. Geek Trivia: Search party of the second part What fictional search engine has appeared in multiple, unaffiliated Hollywood television shows, effectively becoming an unofficial, open source stand-in for Google and its competitors? The Quibble of the Week for Mar. 17, 2009 Webcomic: The 10 stages of software development This oldie but goodie has been found in software engineering cubicles for years, but for those of you who haven't yet seen this all-too-true treatise on the coding business, we give you Software Development as Explained by a Tire Swing. Find more optical distractions in the TechRepublic gallery collection and the TR video channel. White Papers from our partners COMPARE YOUR SALARY HERE Data Center Projects: Standardized Process (American Power Conversion (APC)) Live Webcast: Building the Business Case for Managing Unified Communications (ZDNet) Business Continuity - Keeping Your Business in Business (CDW) Get creative! Innovative IT helps unleash business potential -- learn how in this paper! (SkillSoft) How to reward your best employees Shareholders don't always back your desires to reward your best people. Jay Rollins offers a few ways to work it. TechRepublic Newsletters Get the latest community updates, product reviews, and need-to-know lists in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Community Central Product Spotlight 10 Things Sign up for more free newsletters from TechRepublic. To manage your account settings or to remove yourself from all TechRepublic communications, please visit our Subscription Center. The e-mail address for your subscription is cpedley@churchpower.com Unsubscribe from this e-mail | FAQ | Advertise | Privacy Policy   Copyright © 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. TechRepublic, TechRepublic.com and the TechRepublic logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission. CBS Interactive Inc. 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 U.S.A.