There are different types of leadership: authoritarian and democratic, people-oriented and result-oriented, successful and unsuccessful, loved and hated, etc.

Level 5. Leader Level Five
Leader level Five builds continued company progress through a paradoxical mixture of personal humility and professional iron will.  Level Five leaders are incredibly ambitious people, but they direct that ambition to company interests only (not for personal gains).  Leaders level Five are simple, but highly volitional (they are determined to do whatever is necessary); modest but fearless; they train deputies and do not hesitate to ascribe to them all the merits. Leaders level Five exhibit fanatical desire to achieve results. They do not tolerate mediocrity in any form and does not show any tolerance for those professing the idea that things are good...

The leader is a person with a clear purpose and followers.  But where the leader derives his inspiration from?  Where does he found that boundless energy?  How leaders manage to maintain their youthful audacity, combine it with knowledge and build success?

- Good for whom?
Good for subordinates or good for bosses?  Obviously, because of different criteria of employees and management the same manager will get contradictory assessments.

Every boss has to assess who of his team has the greatest potential for a manager, at least once in his career.  On the other hand, every capable and ambitious employee wishes to be promoted to manager. Both ask themselves: “Who can be a successful manager?”