Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.
Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
We like people with the potential to be leaders of leaders, not managers of managers.
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.
Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.
