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Leading and Managing: "What's the difference?"
As executive coaches, clients often ask us, “What’s the difference between leading and managing?” Why the confusion? Part of it comes from the fact that people often use the terms interchangeably. For example, one might refer to the leadership of a company or the top management of a firm. In this context, there is no harm in interchanging terms. However, these terms can have vastly different meanings sometimes..
When someone says, “You need to show more leadership” or, “An effort you are managing isn’t headed in the right direction,” he or she is getting at the difference between leading and managing. It is in those circumstances that we need to know the difference; not in formal titles or broad statements about the leadership and management of an organization.
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