Read a good article on fastcompany today and would like to share it here:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3006868/youre-only-strong-your-weakest-manager
here are some excerpt:
In practice, leaders who
are detached from the messy process of managing fail. They don't know
what's going on in their organizations.
Stanford University Professor Emeritus James G. March has said
"Leadership involves plumbing as
well as poetry." And I couldn’t agree more having experienced this
throughout my career. The devil is in
the details. Great leaders fail without good management.
What distinguishes today’s successful enterprise is knowledge--such as knowledge of the
customer, the suppliers, and new business ideas that could emerge from
anywhere.
The challenge for leaders is managing such extended enterprises
which requires breaking many of the management rules we grew up with.
Rather
than top-down hierarchical processes and approaches, they need to manage and
govern cross-collaboratively.
As a
leader or future leader, you would need to get your hands dirty in order to do
a great job. There’s a difference in those who “do the right thing” and “do the
thing right”.
3 comments:
I can't agree more. For very long time, I have a pet peeve for too many self-proclaimed leaders out there who think they are "the one" who "do the right thing" and others are supposed to "do thing right" for them. Indeed, these are two very different things, but they don't separate a leader and a manager as clear as most people (wish to) make it out to be.
JT, the distinction is indeed very important!
It certainly is. We should all be reminded both cases started with "do", only then we could talk about "right". No leader emerged with both hands clean.
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