This French phrase, Laissez-faire, means "leave it be," and it's used to describe leaders who leave their team members to work on their own. It can be effective if the leader monitors what's being achieved and communicates this back to the team regularly. Most often, laissez-faire leadership is effective only when individual team members (1.) are very experienced; (2.) skilled self-starters; and (3.) have experience working together. Unfortunately, this type of leadership can also occur when managers don't apply sufficient control.1 1 http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_84.htm
When a person, named "Leader", trys this leadership style, I see more disasters than successes. At the base of it all is that the person "in control" is not and is not really a leader. I can see a train wreck waiting to happen. They, in fact, maybe overwhelmed by the task of leadership and see this as way not to be discovered. //follow me on Twitter at "@rivey" search for me by using "@rivey" or "Ray Ivey"//
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