07 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Five Levels of Management

Someone said to me today; “It’s not a coaching situation. What’s needed is management.” That really resonated with me. In the past I’ve written about the differences between Managing and Leading. Elsewhere I’ve written about the differences between training [filling an empty vessel], mentoring [being an evolutionary elder pointing people in the right direction] and [...]

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10 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Third Rail of Leadership

I’ve written before that Managing and Leadership are different aspects of the work a leader does. Managing is that part that’s like a border collie barking at sheep to get them focused on doing their ‘eating grass’ job. Leading is like a racehorse in the lead down the backstretch. The horse is seemingly pulling all [...]

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