REACTIVE TENDENCIES leadership styles emphasize caution over creating results. They also favor self-protection and productive engagement over aggression. This self-limiting style emphasizes the importance of gaining approval from others and protecting your own interests. LCP is unique because it shows the leader's Operating Systems: The internal assumptions and beliefs that drive behaviours in each domain. The manager can see the inner thoughts that lead to a productive and unproductive leadership style. LCP ultimately increases inner awareness and affects our outward behavior.