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The Difference Between Management and Leadership

The following is a guest article by Joseph Pickett at www.mphprogramslist.com

The words “management” and “leadership” are often used interchangeably, but there is a big difference between being a manager and being a leader.

What Is a Manager?
A manager has authority because of the position he or she holds within an organization. Take a manager who is not also a leader out of his position of authority and he loses the ability to get things done.

Managers are responsible for:

  • Planning and organizing tasks that need to be completed.
  • Assigning work to those who are most qualified to do it.
  • Coordinating efforts between groups of people.

What Is a Leader?
A leader may not be in a management position at all. Continue reading

Leadership Inspiration for 2010

Happy New Year!  For the start of 2012, here is a bit of leadership inspiration from Mike Myatt, Forbes.com contributor and a leadership advisor to CEOs & Boards, and author of the book Leadership Matters.

This One Leadership Quality Will Make or Break You

One of the most often overlooked aspects of leadership is the need for pursuit. Great leaders are never satisfied with traditional practice, static thinking, conventional wisdom, or common performance. In fact, the best leaders are simply uncomfortable with anything that embraces the status quo.  Leadership is pursuit – pursuit of excellence, of elegance, of truth, of what’s next, of what if, of change, of value, of results, of relationships, of service, of knowledge, and of something bigger than themselves. In the text that follows I’ll examine the value of being a pursuer…

The conclusion of the article says. . . “All leaders would be well served to go back to school on what I refer to as the science of pursuitology.” Read the full text here.

[Editors Note: I like Myatt's new term: pursuitology. ;) ]