It is no secret that I like to draw a clear (if somewhat graduated) delineation between management and leadership. In a previous piece on the topic, I summarized the difference as follows: Leaders and Managers tell and – under the best of circumstances – demonstrate what to do and how to do it. Leaders, on the other hand, model […]
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No, You Are Not Hiring Leaders
I often hear people talking about hiring someone into a leadership position. And I have a problem with that. Granted, I may be splitting semantic hairs here, but it bears repeating that leadership is not positional; management is. Let me explain. As I have written elsewhere, management is, first and foremost, about telling people what […]