Comments on: Management vs Leadership

By: Jonathan Oliver

Jonathan Oliver — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:36:34 +0000

Stephen Covey would be proud.

One thing to remember is that some of the best leaders have no formal authority, they have moral authority.

By: derick.bailey

derick.bailey — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:28:02 +0000

@Garry,

i forwarded your issue to the guys that keep this place running. hopefully we’ll have this fixed soon.

By: Garry Shutler

Garry Shutler — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:50:49 +0000

Not sure what’s going on but Gabriel N. Schenker’s posts (excellent by the way) aren’t appearing in google reader for me. Looking at the raw feed myself they seem to be there but google don’t seem to be picking them up. I’ve even tried unsubscribing and resubscribing from the main feed just in case.

Thought you might want to know.

By: derick.bailey

derick.bailey — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:29:48 +0000

@scott,

it’s definitely the “extremely oversimplified motivational speech”

By: Scott C Reynolds

Scott C Reynolds — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:14:45 +0000

“you should never manage those you work with or those that report to you in any capacity”

I’m going to have to call BS on this, it’s either a position of naivete or an extremely oversimplified motivational speech. The simple fact is there are mechanics to management that need to happen. Perhaps you’ve been lucky thus far, but there are aspects of managing direct reports beyond the “leadership” you describe (which I agree is part of a manager’s job) and not everyone responds well to that form of leadership.

Also, keep in mind, not everyone is cut from the cloth of leadership. And that’s a good thing. I’d hesitate to tell *everyone* they should be a leader.