Costco Case Study on Leadership Strategies Abstract This paper describes about how Costco has been using the effective leader within the company for empowering the employees as well as creating the working environment which is enjoyable. The paper aims for answering the three questions as 1.) What is Flexible Leadership Theory and how it is applied to the operations of Costco 2.) What is the role of CEO in all of this 3.) Can this work in the organization Introduction After reading Costco Case Study which has found in the book of Gary Yulk entitled Leadership in the Organizations, 7th Ed., the positive beliefs about how the leadership has emerged as well as feelings of the confidence becoming eminent. The leader may be an effective leader and run productive company, which has presented by Jim Sinegals, is the CEO of Costco. His out-look on company is inspiring as well as motivating for those readings of case study. Flexible Leadership Theory Article Gary Yukl (2008) out-lines the flexible leadership theory like the conceptualized primarily at an organizational levels and this includes four set of variable like (1) organization effectiveness, (2) performances determinant, (3) situational variable as well as (4) leadership decision