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Differentiating Management and Leadership

Appreciating what it takes to make a “creating transferable wealth” transition requires a clear understanding of its fundamental components—leadership and management.

Do you remember the original 3d glasses made of cardboard with a red and a blue lens? Look through the left lens and you’d see the movie surrounded by red squiggly lines. The right lens produced a blue-lined image. But when you looked through both lenses, the movie seemed to jump off the screen at you. This metaphor helps explain the merit of looking at management and leadership separately –the same image but through two separate lenses. Management and leadership are inseparable but for understanding and skill development we’ll consider them one at a time.

Management deals with planning, process, and the production of results. Positions (often defined by job descriptions)are orchestrated by managers to sell, build, or serve—at a profit. This hard side of business includes; strategy, plans, performance, measurement, analysis, and consequences…positions produce.

Leadership focuses on employee motivation, creativity, will to win, and desire to belong. Business pressure can cause determined managers to forget that real people live behind every position. Employee attitudes, hopes, and fears regulate corporate energy. There is no neutral ground—every employee is either generating or dissipating energy…people create.

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