Transformational leadership

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Introduction
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns formalised the idea of two distinctive approaches to management support in his 1978 text, “Leadership”. Transactional leadership focuses on supervision, organisation and performance. The focus is often on specific tasks and uses reward and punishment as a motivational technique. Transformational leadership is when "leaders and their followers raise one another to higher levels of morality and motivation."