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.
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant 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.
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.
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.
Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.
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.
