I believed then & still do that an effective leader engages YOU, the mere pupil/peasant/groundling/poor bloody infantry, to work WITH them. Moody, as I’ve posted elsewhere recently here, never had uncertainty in his make-up, and certainly too often ignored sensible advice from senior Masters.
Though why he thought winding up the PTA AND the Governors into the bargain defies logical analysis even now.
The year after I left, it was ME who was button-holed by a Governor at my local, wanting to know whether Moody kept secret files on them like the ones I’d “liberated” from his cabinets & published in our underground school magazine(everyone knew it was me, but I had an alibi!). That’s how untrustworthy he’d become.