Change Leadership

The management methodologies that helped successfully develop enterprises throughout the 20th century are no longer sufficient. Driving results in a world of ever-increasing change requires a new kind of leadership.




Faster technological change, greater international competition, the deregulation of markets, overcapacity in capital-intensive industries, an unstable oil cartel, raiders with junk bonds, and the changing demographics of the work-force are among the many factors that have contributed to this shift. 


What is the difference between management and leadership?

Management makes systems of people and technology work well day after day, week after week, year after year.

  • Planning and budgeting
  • Organizing and staffing
  • Controlling and problem solving
  • Taking complex systems of people and technology and making them run efficiently and effectively, hour after hour, day after day

Leadership creates the systems that managers manage and changes them in fundamental ways to take advantage of opportunities and to avoid hazards

  • Creating vision and strategy
  • Communicating and setting direction
  • Motivating action
  • Aligning people

The Difference Between Management and Leadership
The Key Differences Between Leading and Managing

What happens when organizations have different amounts of management and leadership?


How do organizations change over time?

When they are formed, organizations are often long on leadership and short on management. The savviest organizations gradually add management capabilities over time while still preserving that spark of leadership that led them to rapid growth in the first place. But inevitably, over time, the most passionate leaders move on to something else, while layers of management build up in their place. Organizations gradually transition to a complacent mentality, where management reigns supreme and leadership is in short supply.

For more information, please refer to John Kotter's book, What Leaders Really Do.

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