How do you interact with others? What is your leadership style? How does that affect the team around you?

My leadership style is something that has evolved over the years from my experiences. Over the last decade since I graduated high school and left home for my life with the United States Army. This was probably the greatest spectrum of awful to exhilarating experiences and I was exposed to various leadership styles and problems that had to challenged. I found that leaders often marginalized their people and were left out of the equation as it pertains to the problem. Eventually, this causes unnecessary misery and hardship and poor performance and retention of quality, competent personnel. These experiences coupled with my personal background where I developed a fair sense of Independence and self-reliance because of the early death of my father when I as a child.  I found effective leaders were good communicators and would provided direction and clarity to their organization. However, leaders are not ordained that privilege by others, they need to prove it and live it in every aspect, often working longer and harder than their subordinates. This is what I strive for when it really matters, somebody needs to push the group momentum forward if you are to survive because success tastes so sweet. I also recommend the political writings of Jerry Pournelle in his Sci-Fi military novels: really goods analysis of human leadership and politics in bureaucracies.