Good leaders = happy and motivated employees.
Happy and motivated employees = more productivity.
More productivity = more profit.
The current school of popular management is ridiculous in that it treats employees as “resources” that are expendable, seeking to work employees to the bone and extract maximum profit from their labour for as little possible in return. The alternative and better approach is to see employees as investments/assets who the company can help grow and nurture in a symbiotic relationship that benefits both parties. It is ridiculous that companies think the money and time wasted on recruitment, spying, micromanagement, pizza parties and the like is better value for money than just paying people reasonable salaries, investing in training, and fostering a high trust work environment where employees actually want to stick around. In my opinion, the former is indicative of a company where the higher levels of management have been infiltrated by people with sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies, as these are the people who can’t comprehend why anyone would make decisions that aren’t wholly motivated by self interest. The result is they manage their employees with zero trust and treat them like machines rather than people.
TOS: The Original Series (Kirk)
1. Rewatch TNG
2. Emulate Picard