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laissez-faire leadership  

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  • Laissez-faire leadership may be the best or the worst of leadership styles. If the leader follows the normally understood definition and standard practice of noninterference and “hands-off” when supposedly leading his or her followers, the worst form of leadership is manifested. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Laissez-Faire Leadership]

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