In the business world, it has become more and more important establishing a good relationship between employers and employees. In fact, this good relationship can be a result of skills of executives, chiefs, or even leaders, who have the ability to minimise conflicts inside the company and build a healthy workplace, where managers and staff have a good relationship with each other. This healthy work environment leads to the achievement of the company’s success and its welfare. Some recent articles (Ladkin & Weber 2011; Cappelli et al. 2010; Useem 2010) have presented and explored the features in different manners of how a leader can build a good relationship with staff members. While the reports by Ladkin & Weber and by Cappelli et al. focus on local aspects of leadership, Hong Kong and India respectively, the reflexion by Useem focuses more on how military precepts can be useful for business. A major concern of all three articles is the importance of having a decent workplace in a business company, or in other words, how a good relationship between the people who work in a firm can lead to its prosperity and how can the leader help in this process. This review will compare these three articles in relation to how employers develop their relationship with employees through three specific aspects: communication skills, motivation, and development. After the comparison, a final evaluation will be presented. The three articles all describe different characteristics of leaders which can influence in the way that relationships are built in a business company. The authors all concur that one of the most fundamental attributes of these is communication. Ladkin & Weber and Useem explain that clarifying decisions and goals is the key to success and for maintaining a good relationship in work. Therefore, to the workers understating the leader must be very precise