I hadn’t planned to blog about Tribes every day during this group blogging project, but the conversation has been so good and thought provoking I just can’t help it.
Day 3 is being facilitated by Eric Murrell at mediasalt.com and covers pages 12-16. He focused on a quote from the book, “Leadership is Not Management” Which sparked some of my own thoughts about the differences between leadership and management and the impact of those differences…
– Leadership is not management. Leaders determine the destination. Managers use the resources provided to them to get to that destination.
– One of the challenges I think we all face is that no job or ministry position is 100% leadership or 100% management. It’s always a mix of both. How much of your job or ministry position leadership and how much is management?
– I think some people are wired up to be more leader and others more manager. Some people intuitively see the future and know where to take their organization. Other people don’t know where they’re going. They can do good things but need someone to tell them what to do. Most people are somewhere in between? Where are you on the leader/manager continuum?
– If you are a leader, you need to know where the people you lead are on the leader/manager continuum because that should determine how much freedom and how much guidance you give them to do their job.
In my recently published Christmas novel, Ian, one of Santa’s Helpers, takes some training that could lead to a management position. During the training, he struggles to understand the difference between managing and leading. He soon finds out that management is based upon processes, order, and controls and that leadership is more about developing the potential in others. He likes the latter.
It might be a step in the right direction if we were to teach management and leadership concepts to our youth at an early age. Later on in their lives, they will be more adept at achieving success in different workplace environments. They’ll know when to lead and when to follow.
All the best!
Eric Dana Hansen, Author of “IAN, CEO, North Pole”
http://www.ianceonorthpole.com
Hi Eric, thanks for stopping by. Sounds like an interesting book. If you want to send me a copy, I’ll post a review.