Explanation: When the distinction is made between the roles that are played and oneself, an emotional force is achieved to be able to ignore the personal attacks that the opponents expect and believe will hamper our initiative. Each individual has relationships, political capital, loyalties with people from another side and that their support, collaboration or help may need them at a certain time to achieve progress.
The leader member exchange (LMX) theory is a relationship based approach to leadership that focuses on the two way (dyadic) relationship between leaders and followers.