10 Leadership Practices to Stop Today  If you want to be the
best in your industry, you have to get rid of your outdated
management style.   You might not feel it day-to-day, but
business management is in a major transition.  The old days of
command-and-control leadership are fading in favor of what might
be better termed a trust-and-track method, in which people are
not just told what to do, but why they are doing it.  More
formally, we're moving from what was called "transactional"
leadership to "transformative" leadership. And there's no
turning back.  Business owners certainly have a long way to go,
especially in more established companies where old practices die
hard.  But you can see increasing evidence that by creating a
company with a clear purpose and values, you'll find your
employees connect themselves to something bigger, and that
increases productivity.  In other words, a culture of engagement
leads to greater customer loyalty, and better financial success.
Here's my list of "old school" practic