{"id":1585,"date":"2008-05-22T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/defining-leadership\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:13:20","slug":"defining-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/defining-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.inc.com\/boss-school\/2008\/05\/are_you_a_leader_or_just_a_che.html?partner=rss\">Inc.com&#8217;s Boss School blog<\/a> discusses a topic that seems like it might be a distinction without a difference &#8211; leadership vs. management.\u00a0 However, I think the author hits a perfect chord right at the start:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leadership isn&#8217;t the same thing as management. Leadership is about providing vision as to where the company is going. It&#8217;s about inspiring and motivating. It&#8217;s about instilling a certain amount of comfort that someone wiser than you is going to figure a way out of a mess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I often think of managing as being somewhat akin to being a zookeeper.\u00a0 You keep things in order and provide needed resources.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not the greatest metaphor, but you get the idea.\u00a0 Back to the blog post &#8211; here is the observation that caught me attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I think everyone wants a fearless leader. But I also think there&#8217;s a fine line between sounding positive and sounding delusional. You lose credibility. Done in the proper manner, an honest &#8220;negative&#8221; appraisal of a difficult situation can be positive if it leads to a good plan of action. It is an opportunity to show the staff that you are critical of yourself and take responsibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is unnerving to work for a leader who seems out of touch with reality.\u00a0 Leaders who refuse to address the realities of the situation are problematic.\u00a0 They refuse to acknowledge the present realities which leads to a lack of corrective actions.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve seen a handful of companies absolutely crater under this type of leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inc.com&#8217;s Boss School blog discusses a topic that seems like it might be a distinction without a difference &#8211; leadership vs. management.\u00a0 However, I think the author hits a perfect chord right at the start: Leadership isn&#8217;t the same thing as management. Leadership is about providing vision as to where the company is going. It&#8217;s about inspiring and motivating. It&#8217;s about instilling a certain amount of comfort that someone wiser than you is going to figure a way out of a mess. I often think of managing as being somewhat akin to being a zookeeper.\u00a0 You keep things in order and provide needed resources.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not the greatest metaphor, but&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/defining-leadership\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[31,105,695],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-leadership","tag-management","tag-positive-leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-pz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2508,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/leadership-jargon\/","url_meta":{"origin":1585,"position":0},"title":"Leadership Jargon","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh does this Sales & Marketing Management article hit me where I live.\u00a0 The gist of the article is the corporate speak many leaders use in hopes of sounding\u2026smarter?\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know why they do it.\u00a0 I have encountered this approach when working with leaders and their teams.\u00a0 Assessing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1638,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/gen-xodus\/","url_meta":{"origin":1585,"position":1},"title":"Gen Xodus","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"BusinessWeek.com has an article titled Today's Top 10 Talent-Management Challenges that provides some interesting tidbits from 3 different talent managers.\u00a0 One topic leaped off the screen: 6. 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