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Too much leadership
Reading one of Ethan Garofolo's daily emails, I bumped on this video by James Womack of the Lean Enterprise Institute. On it he argues that there's too much leadership and not enough management.
However, the way Womack describes leadership and management gets mixed up and take an outdated view of what leadership is.
3 points to highlight
- Leadership equals heroic leadership.
- Leadership equals authority.
- Leadership is about convincing others.
It has nothing to do with leadership.
Here's the thing
You can do management AND leadership —as long as you want to lead.
Leadership is a choice to "embed the capacity for greatness in the people and practices of an organization, and decoupling it from the personality of the leader". [David Marquet]
Rod Aparicio
The habit of daily writing for you, so that you rethink what you believe about (your) business, brand and marketing —without the bullshit.
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