Mike Morrison has written an interesting piece that appears on the site trainingzone.co.uk. The title asks: "Management and Leadership Skills: What's the Difference?" And I ask: "Why does it matter?"

I confess that in the beginning of my career as an independent consultant, coach, and trainer I used to design exercises that helped training participants sort out what was leadership and what was management. After all, Warren Bennis told us this distinction was important and he is a guru to be reckoned with.

But I don't think Dr. Bennis ever imagined that we would give over valuable training time to a distinction that is perfectly meaningless from a training perspective. Call them managers or call them leaders, they're responsible for the performance of a group. And whatever you call them they have to learn to do the same things.

Read more here: http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2007/12/10/does-it-matter-whether-we-call-something-management-or-leadership.aspx

posted by Raven Young at Raven's Brain under Leadership
Tags: Leadership, Management, Leadership vs Management