I had a recent conversation on the final post from a series last summer regarding supposed differences between ‘leaders’ and managers.
The reader said she was confused and asked whether managers needed to be ‘leaders’, too.
I think that my responses will be of use to others, so I’ve rounded them out below to increase access to the information.
It would be lovely if there was a nice, clear-cut answer to the ‘leader’/manager thing, but like a lot of these types of questions it depends on whom you ask.
There are two distinct schools of thought. One believes that leaders and managers are different and see ‘leaders’ as on a higher plane.
Others, like me, believe that to manage well requires having and using so-called leadership skills.
To further confuse the issue, there’s a growing movement that thinks leadership skills can and should be found at any/all levels of the organization (think organizational leadership) and become active as the need arises.
In other words, real leadership is what you believe and how you think and act, AKA, MAP, as opposed to your position.
Further, real leadership isn’t about style or even ‘vision’.
Style may change as you adopt a presentation appropriate to the people with whom you are interacting, but that stylistic change doesn’t change who you are and what you believe.
Vision presentation also changes based on your audience. Changes in the actual vision is a different subject
To summarize,
While management is what you do, leadership is the way you think. Great management is composed of equal parts leadership and accountability. True leaders are proclaimed as such by those around them, not by themselves.
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有关领导力的更多真相
我已对去年夏天一期关于领导和经理人区别的邮件作了相关评论。
读者声称她很困惑，并询问是否所有的经理人都需要成为领导。
我本人认为我的回答会对大家也有益，所以我已经将它们列在下面供大家了解。
要是有一个能够简洁清晰而又切中该“领导”/经理问题的答案就太棒了，但是就如很多此类问题一样，这需要取决于你所询问的对象。
有两个来自不同学校学生的想法。其中一个认为领导和经理人是完全不同的，认为领导是一个更高的境界。
其他人（和我想法一致）认为要想很好的管理，就需要拥有同时能够使用所谓的领导力。
令人感到奇怪的是，越来越多的人认为在任何组织或者组织中的各个层面都可以运用或都应该能够找到所谓的领导力（即组织领导力），当领导力越来越多的被需要时，它就会变得更活跃。
换句话说，真正的领导力在于当有反对你的意见时，你的信念以及想问题做事情的方式，AKA杂志，MAP。
再者，真正的领导力不仅仅只是停留于表面功夫或者甚至是如人们所见那样。
当你想恰当表达一个与你有相互影响的人，这种形式可能就会随之改变，但这个形式上的变化并不能改变你是谁，更不能改变你的想法。
基于您听众的角度，视觉表述也会有所改变。现实景象的改变是一个完全不同的主题。
总而言之，
管理就是指你做什么工作，而领导力则是指你的思维方式。强大的领导力是综合领导力和责任心的每个部分。真正的领导者通常并非他们自己，而是由他们身边的人所称呼。
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