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Bob Sutton on leadership vs management

14 September 2008

 
 
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Having previously posted on the distinction between leadership and management, the recent discussion by Bob Sutton on his view of the differences between leadership and management in his post “Leadership vs. Management: An Accurate But Dangerous Distinction?” caught my eye. In the post Bob makes an important point concerning how the [...]

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The essential difference between Leadership and Management

8 June 2008

I have written in a previous posts on the differences between management and leadership and recently I can across an interesting article with an interesting take on the topic.
“Management can be taught. Leadership cannot be taught or learned, it must be earned.”

I like this perspective, it means that leadership is a choice, it’s the [...]

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Leaders vs. Managers….. Are they really different?

8 April 2008

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The debate between leadership and management has been raging for a number of years. I feel that the distinction between management a leadership is useful one, in that it help us gain a better understanding of leadership and causes us to reflect on our own behaviour, asking ourselves, "Are we really [...]

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Leaders grow most in their areas of strength!

13 January 2008

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"The mediocre manager believes that most things are learnable and therefore that the essence of management is to identify each person’s weaker areas and eradicate them. The great manager believes the opposite. He believes that the most influential qualities of a person are innate and therefore that the essence of management is to [...]

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Ten Habits of Incompetent Managers

11 November 2007

Fast Company discusses the "Ten Habits of Incompetent Managers" by Margret Hefferman which are as follows:

Bias against action: "There are always plenty of reasons not to take a decision, reasons to wait for more information, more options, more opinions. But real leaders display a consistent bias for action. People who don’t make mistakes generally don’t [...]

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Peter Drucker on Effective Executives

7 August 2007

 
In his book “The Effective Executive” Peter Drucker discusses the five essential practices that are hallmarks of effective executives:
 

Effective executives know where their time goes. They work systematically at managing the little of their time that can be brought under their control.
Effective executives focus on outward contribution. They gear their efforts to results rather [...]

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Are you demotivating your employees?

13 June 2007

Harvard Working Knowledge published an article by by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer, “Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation” on motivation that really resonated with me. A large part of a leaders job involves initiating and leading change and this requires of leaders the ability motivate and inspire others to join them on the journey. Unlike [...]

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How to get more passion into the workplace…

17 May 2007

Motto Magazine published an interview with Deepak Chopra in the interview he is asked the question “How can companies and individuals bring more passion and soul to the workplace?” I thought that his answer was deeply insightful:
The way to get more passion in the workplace is to actually change the way we select people for [...]

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Management f-LAWS

26 November 2006

What are f-LAWS you may ask? The f-LAWS website says that:
f-LAWS are truths about organizations that we might wish to deny or ignore – simple and more reliable guides to managers’ everyday behaviour than the complex truths proposed by scientists, economists, sociologists, politicians and philosophers.
In 1958, Professor Cyril Northcote Parkinson first articulated Parkinson’s Law, which [...]

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Charles Handy’s choice of management gurus

5 November 2006

The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management is a series that examines the roles and teachings of Business Gurus, with text, audio and an explanation of common management terms, his guide and selection of management gurus are as follows:

Introduction – Charles Handy guides you through the lives and works of his choice of management [...]

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