Leadership vs. Management

Leadership is influence. Everything else is management.

You can get people to go someplace but only if there’s something in it for them.

Unless.

Unless they trust you. And trust is the foundation for leading. They must trust that your vision is indeed the preferable future that they should pursue. They must trust that you’ve bought what your selling. Otherwise getting them to move is simply a matter incentive.

As a leader, I take peoples trust very seriously. Without it all I have is people who put in the minimum because that’s what “the management” requires.

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  • Jamie Favreau

    With out a thought leader you don’t have anything. Though not everyone can be a leader and some people may want to take the back seat to be managed.

    I think you need a balance of both to work as a team. But with out a leader the group can not thrive.