Cons: A powerful and assertive leader will find the transactional model conducive to his way of running things. However, though he'll create great followers, he'll stunt their growth as leaders. When people get used to doing just what they're told and only as much they're told, they stop thinking ‘out of the box‘. Original thinking isn't really promoted in this system, because of which, an obedient workforce will be created with a lack of imagination. New leaders will be tough to find from the lower strata of power hierarchy. This leadership model will create a stressful work environment. Productivity will be maintained but innovations and breakthroughs will be tough to find. For businesses focused on channelizing the creative potential of their employes, this isn’t a recommended model for adoption. It stifles the creative instinct, creating compliant ‘workers’. Not innovators. Overbearing leaders who exemplify this model, rarely leave behind any proteges or followers, who have it in them, what it takes to inspire and lead people.