What are the Strengths and Weakness of Adaptive Leadership?

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1) What are the strengths and weakness of adaptive leadership? What particular challenges might an adaptive leader encounter in encouraging their followers to solve their own problems and challenges?
The main advantages of adaptive leadership are that is usually centred on the follower rather than the leader itself. It isn’t a unique form of leadership on its own, but a combination of a number of leadership traits. The leadership focuses much on interaction with followers in pursuit of accomplishing a certain goal or goals. Adaptive leadership is supportive of the followers, and this acts as a motivation for them to go and achieve even greater things. The main disadvantage f adaptive leadership is that it isn’t a concept that can be placed a finger on. It is not distinct and hence lacks originality and clarity in its understanding or conceptualization. As a result, it needs further refinement for it to stand out distinctly on its own. The main challenges that an adaptive leader might face in dissemination of his or her duties in ensuring followers solve their own problems, is the dependence of the followers on them. The followers might have become too dependent and reliant on the leader, that they might ...