What separates Leaders from Manipulators?

What separates Leaders from Manipulators?

As a manipulator, you will never form a team or build sustainable and lasting relationships or engagements.

Napoleon Bonaparte said, “There is no such thing as bad regiments, only bad colonels”. In business, management experts tell us there are no bad teams, only bad managers.

Yet there are managers and business owners who are always complaining about their employees. They blame poor services, multiple failures and nearly all business problems to their employees’ lack of commitment, competence and some other virtues and abilities requisite for ultimate success.

?Truth be said, failure in an enterprise is always the leader’s fault and never that of the employees. Getting the right employees and providing leadership is part of entrepreneurship.

In the market place we have so many managers and business owners who are disguised as leaders when in actual sense they are not. They are manipulators. They are selfish money seekers with no interest in employees’ and customers’ goodness.

?Leaders and manipulators are different but have few things in common. They both get people do what they want them to do. They both build a form of relationship, leverage their influence and maneuver their employees to achieve business objectives.