by James O. Rodgers | Jul 30, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
What is leadership? There is no current communal definition of leadership, which has led to widespread confusion. We blur the lines between leadership and management, and our discussions of leadership often become fanciful and unfocused. We need to fix this by...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 30, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
If we want to see how current management thinking has evolved, we should first review history. The formal study of management is a relatively new concept: it began in the late nineteenth century, when Henri Fayol introduced his 14 principles of management. Frederick...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 30, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
I’ve never seen leaders and managers as separate people – rather, I believe that leadership and management are different roles. Leaders must often be managers, and managers must often be leaders. Even though the business world is currently obsessed with leaders at the...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 30, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
Once the idea of “leadership” entered the corporate lexicon, a major effort to elevate the role of the leader ensued. But as organizations elevated leaders, they undervalued the roles of managers. What businesses need is a balance between leadership and management....
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 30, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
At the team level and throughout organizations of all sizes, a lot of good management is taking place. The problem is that we often refer to that good management as “leadership.” By doing so, we confuse the people who are really doing the hard work of day-to-day,...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 30, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
Some writers might tell you that management is simply an imitation of leadership, or that leaders and managers are one and the same these days. Nothing could be further from the truth: managers can’t copy leaders—they serve two very different functions. Leaders point...
