lewin-leadership-styles

lewin-leadership-styles is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,769 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for comparing three leadership styles identified by Kurt Lewin: autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire. It helps assess whether a leader's approach fits the team's situation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose team dysfunction, review management practices, and plan a shift from founder-led decisions to shared decision-making.
Why use it?
It gives teams a way to discuss how decisions are made and why a group may be struggling. It can reveal problems caused by too much control, too little direction, or unclear participation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the foreman plugin — 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to diagnose team dysfunction, review management practices, and plan a shift from founder-led decisions to shared decision-making.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/lewin-leadership-styles
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add fatihguner/foreman --skill lewin-leadership-styles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foreman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,769 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00078 $0.02769
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01385
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00554
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00277

Measured 5d ago against content hash 42edcc55123d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lewin-leadership-styles scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/foreman/skills/lewin-leadership-styles/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.

Lewin's Leadership Styles

Imagine three identical teams of ten people, each given the same project, the same deadline, and the same resources. The only variable is the leader. Team A's leader makes every decision, assigns every task, and monitors every output. Team B's leader sets the vision, then asks the team how they want to get there. Team C's leader says "figure it out" and retreats to their office. Kurt Lewin ran essentially this experiment in 1939 with groups of children -- and the results mapped with uncomfortable precision onto dynamics that play out in every startup, corporation, and nonprofit today. The autocratic group produced more output but lower quality and collapsed when the leader left. The democratic group produced slightly less volume but far higher quality and sustained performance independently. The laissez-faire group produced the least, with the most frustration and the worst interpersonal dynamics.

Three styles. Three radically different organizational outcomes. Lewin's framework remains the foundation upon which all subsequent leadership theory was built.


The Framework

Lewin identified three primary leadership styles along a spectrum of control. The framework is descriptive (leaders tend toward one style) and prescriptive (certain contexts reward certain styles).

The Three Styles Compared

Dimension Autocratic Democratic Laissez-Faire
Decision authority Leader decides alone Leader facilitates group input, then decides or delegates Leader abdicates decision-making
Communication flow Top-down, directive Bidirectional, consultative Minimal, reactive
Team autonomy Low; tasks are assigned with specific instructions Moderate; team participates in planning and execution choices High in theory, chaotic in practice
Speed of decisions Fast Moderate Slow or absent
Innovation Low; risk-aversion dominates High; diverse perspectives surface Variable; depends entirely on team capability
Team morale Low long-term; resentment builds High; ownership breeds engagement Low; absence of guidance feels like abandonment
Quality of output Variable; depends on leader's expertise Consistently high; collective intelligence corrects errors Typically low; no quality standards enforced
Scalability Poor; bottleneck at the leader Strong; distributed decision-making scales Unpredictable; works only with exceptional self-managing teams
Leader absence impact Severe; work stops or quality collapses Minimal; team continues autonomously None; the leader was already functionally absent

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 176 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 42edcc55123d

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lewin-leadership-styles is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,769 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.

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