A brief glance at history shows that leadership is a neutral tool, as it can be used to help or hurt people. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King are revered because they stressed humane solutions to problems. Dictator Adolf Hitler and cult leader Jim Jones are examples of corrupt leaders; they certainly motivated their followers, but the effects of their rule was ruinous. Modern corporate management is starting to stress the softer of these two approaches, rejecting the traditional authoritarian management techniques that depended on fear for empathetic motivators who practice the Golden Rule. The key tto each manager's effectiveness lies in their "ability to inspire trust, loyalty, commitment, and collegiality among team members" (Eade 1996).
Comparing traditional autocratic managers to abused children who grow up to be abusers, Eade writes that this style of dealing with subor
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