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model to be successful it is extremely important that the leader should accurately judge the confidence and motivation of his followers.

From all the above theories we see that there is no one best way to predict a successful leader. All the above theories have different ways of looking at leaders. The best way to examine whether a person is a good leader or not is to study him is comparing him to various theories on leadership.

4. EXAMINING BRITISH AIRWAYS' LEADERSHIP STYLE 审查英国航空公司的领导风格
The main reason for British Airways to select Willie Walsh as their CEO was because at that time British Airways was facing stiff competition from low cost airlines. His success as a leader in Aer Lingus an Irish flight carrier which was almost on its way to bankruptcy and then Willie Walsh stepped in not only turning the carrier into a profit making carrier but also one of the most successful carrier of Ireland.

During the analysis I found Willie Walsh to have the following characteristic from the various articles written on him.

Intimidating- as his peers were afraid to raise question about T5 at Heathrow before it was inaugurated.
Peers are not involved in decisions- He was found to seclude himself and his colleagues found it difficult to approach him (Michaels, 2006).
He is very strong minded and confident - He does what he believes to be correct with or without any fan following (Walsh, 2009)
Hugely energetic, Hard worker and a workaholic - he has not taken a vacation for the past 3 years (Walsh, 2009)
His work is only professional no emotions- This is the main reason as to his success at turning flight carriers profitable as he does this by cutting cost by job cuts.
Tuff leader who rules with an iron fist- his peers at Aerlingus use to call him 'Slasher Walsh'.
Confrontational- He is always involved in the meeting with the union and management. Now he sits on the managements side but earlier he use to sit on the unions side.
He is ruthless in his decision- He fired 2 of the oldest managers of British Airways over the terminal 5 fiasco (Milmo, 2008).
He believes in leading by being a role model- He and Keith Williams, finance director of BA worked unpaid and requested the staff also to consider unpaid leave or working part time (Travel Weekly(UK), 2009)
Linking Willie Walsh's leadership style to Trait Theory

From the above table we observe that Willie Walsh has most of the traits and skills that are required by a successful leader

Linking Willie Walsh's leadership style to Michigan and Ohio University studies

Michigan Ohio University studies classify Willie Walsh as a leader with Task oriented behaviour. This is seen as he does not maintain any relationship he is only is interested in work if he feels someone is redundant or not doing his work efficiently he fires them. (Nexis,UK, 2005). He also expects his employees to get the work given to them whether or not they have the resources and capability to do the work given to them.

Linking Willie Walsh's leadership style to Transactional, Transformation and Charismatic Leadership

Willie Walsh follows a transactional style of leadership. As he is task oriented and does not believe in building relations. He believes that the salary given to employee is a reward for their work and in case they don't do