This is a great read by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman of the Harvard Business Review. “Contagious leadership” has always been the core of our business models.
“We wanted to know how such ‘social contagion’ affects leaders. We already know that good leadership creates engaged employees and that leaders influence a variety of outcomes such as personnel turnover, customer satisfaction, sales, revenue, productivity, and so on. But if you’re a good leader, do you make the people around you more likely to become good leaders as well? And which behaviors are most readily ‘caught’?”