Well, I'm finally breaking into the world of Blogs. In the process of focusing my attention on the personal and professional passion of my life, I decided a blog would be a nice addition.
You see, I love leadership. Leadership spans across every industry, every field of endeavor, every aspect of humanity. Leadeship is needed. People long for leadership excellence even when they don't know that's what they are missing.
Management is not leadership. But management benefits from leadership. Effective managers often become effective leaders. Though it is possible that someone may be an effective manager and not ever become an effective leader.
Leadership is not management. And leadership doesn't usually benefit from management. Effective leaders are not required to become effective managers. Sure, an effective leader may become an effective manager, but it's not a common occurrence.
How can these two concepts be? Managers manage things, projects, processes. Leaders lead people. The skill sets required for both may overlap at times, but they'll also be completely different.
Fo me - I enjoy studying leadership. I enjoy discussing leadership. I enjoy teaching leadership.
So, obviously, this blog is about leadership.
I welcome your thoughts.
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I find it fascinating that the concepts of leadership and management are so often interchanged in the business world, yet, as you point out, they are not the same thing. A disorganized person can be an effective leader if he/she is able to motivate the people around him/her to accomplish the task at hand. On the other hand, a person can be highly organized and effective individually and yet not be able to motivate others to action. Very interesting!
This week I was reading Kofi Annan's departing remarks from the UN. He said he saw "no hope of a peaceful and stable future for humanity in this century" without strong American leadership. Wow! Here is the man who has been actively opposed to America's decisions for the past several years lamenting on its lack of leadership. This little remark reminded me 1) how lonely true leadership can be 2) how desperately all organizations crave strong leadership even when they at times deride it 3) How extraordinarly hard it is to be a leader in this day and age. One must be truly mature and capable of developing true self-confidence, humility and very thick-skin.
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