Are You Leading Or Are You Really Only Managing
I think the following raises some excellent points about Are You Leading Or Are You Really Only Managing. I’ve included a few of the highlights for you to get the gist of the article:
Some leaders have no idea how to be led and how to follow. This is a key leadership principle that separates managers from leaders. Strength and courage would be at the top the list of characteristics of a leader but wisdom is number one when it comes to leadership. Understanding this principle results in leaders allowing themselves to be led. One essence of wisdom is having the ability to observe and discern whether we are relevant and what we need to reinvent when it comes to the way we do business. What do you need to change as the leader to take your business to the next level? What do you need to reinvent?
Managers are required for the micro, not the vision. Effective leaders are never afraid of declaring the cost of the vision. Great leaders cast vision. The leaders vision will inspire and energise those around them. What is your vision?
If you want to increase your wisdom, it’s about realising you don’t have all the answers. If you truthfully recognise this then you will seek wisdom. The greater the wisdom, the greater the results will be. What wisdom do you need to seek?
Only by knowing yourself first can you bring about a change in others, which is the highest calling of leadership and separates managers from leaders. Leaders lead people and bring about change in people so that the people they lead become empowered and more effective at what they do. Leaders face the truth head on. For you to be more effective, what do you need to face head on that you really need to change? Are you prepared to ask yourself tough questions?
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Thanks,
Steve
Case Manager SP Help USA
6 年Leading a group and show progress and support from workers helps to manage an organization
Experienced Nursing Leader with passion for leading others and building partnerships in an innovative and changing environment.
6 年Another great and quick read to help you understand those sometimes subtle differences between managing and leading!
Executive Transformational Leader with Specialized Experience in Training & Development
6 年I think that managers and managing get an undeserved bad reputation as the “dark side” of poor leadership. In my opinion, a manager who is truly embracing the responsibility for others that they have been entrusted with, should be practicing leadership. You may need to distinguish between someone in a “manager” position where they are responsible for a process and specific outcomes from someone who is in a “leadership” position where they should be focused on vision and strategy, but I think it is important to distinguish the difference between a “leadership” position and actually practicing leadership. A wise man told me recently that “leadership is influence nothing more, nothing less” (Thank you Darren K. Walker ). There are a lot of good people in “manager” positions that more fully embrace practicing leadership and generating influence than some of those in “leadership” positions.
Struggling Author
6 年Complete bullshit. Managers are leaders by default. Good or bad or indifferent Manager is a title for a person and how well or poorly they do their job has nothing to do with all the total nonsense self help scammers try to come up with to sell books and seminars and programs to corporate training budgets. The ironic thing is I rarely meet any of these self proclaimed experts who I would want "leading" anything and I met quite a few at Harvard.