The key point about these various styles—and if you take one thing away from this book, make it this—is that it's crucial for you to develop the ability to adapt the approach you take, depending on the circumstances. Different people, with different personalities and different levels of experience need to be managed in different ways; and different types of work, done in different types of companies or other institutions, also requires different approaches.

This point is especially true in today's world, where highly educated knowledge workers, and young people raised on social media, will not mesh well with a rigid and inflexible managerial style.