what distinguishes traditional conceptions of leadership from best practice leadership?

Answer 1

If your looking for an official answer for homework, I can't help you because I am only guessing. If you just want my personal opinion, here it is.

A traditional concept leader sticks to the tradions and original policies and practices the company has been using since it started (or for at least a very long time). A best practice leader is one that is open to change. He or she will take a look at the practices people are following to make it successful and compile all the best practices together. For example, say company a has a really good receiving process, but lacks efficiency on the shipping side and company b has a really good shipment process, but is lackluster on the receiving side. The best practice leader (who works for company c) will change how his company does things by implementing the good items company a does with the good items company b does. That way company c has a good receiving and shipping process. Or say that company a and b are both decent in receiving. Each of them has one good thing that they are doing. Company c will combine the two things with his stuff to make the his receiving flow go even better. (I used different companies in the example, but in real-life it doesn't have to be different companies. It can be different people within the same company doing good things instead of different companies.)