Mine is a transformational team leadership. As a team we have stated our vision and purpose, developed our plans for achieving our goals, established our hierarchy and the duties that each rank will perform.
Transformational because with the input of the entire team I instituted big changes that have benefited the league enormously. Those changes have brought out effort and abilities in many of our players that even they didn't know they have. It's been a great experience!
I motivate by creating small games within the game, competitions amongst ourselves, showing our progress toward our goals. You have to remove the non performers and inactives and continually renew.
With a strong structure, clear tasks, and most importantly, teamwork, every member feels s/he is part of something bigger than his/herself that is doing something for each member of the team.
Diplomacy is quite possibly the most important underlying aspect of the game. I find the unwritten alliances are the most powerful. The Untamed Lands are a study in the power of unwritten alliances at the moment. We are seeing once powerful leagues crumble and fall into oblivion while weak leagues unworthy of their stature climb with a benefactor. It's fascinating to behold and anyone who discredits the power of alliances is fool hearty.
It is a strategy game. Without strategy you lose. You either waste your coin, your troops, or your resources while your enemy uses strategy to gain more with less effort and expense.
That is the Fellowship Untamed Way: Fellowship - Strategy - Fun. If you're not having fun, why play this game?