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Digg it UP - Managing Things and Leading People
If you've driven through Atlanta - or perhaps throughout the South - you've seen large, attention-getting signs proclaiming (among other things) that someone has gas. ???My husband was the first to observe this sign. As he drove along 285, he picked up his cell phone and reported, "I pooted.""That's nice," I told him, once again rolling my eyes at his childish behavior. He called back five minutes later, heading north on Peachtree Industrial, to inform me, "My boogers itch." It t
Have you ever wondered how architects are able to sell an idea of a new house, office block or other building to potential buyers? Well, they use blueprints and sketches, obviously, but it is not easy for most people to visualize a two-dimensional technical drawing as the final structure. The key to convincing a buyer that the architects design is going to become the house or other building of their dreams requires something far more appealing. This can be done in one of two ways; a scale mod
High-performing teams and organizations balance the discipline of systems, processes, and technology management on a base of effective people leadership. Here are some key of the key distinctions between the two:
The Management-Leadership Balance
Management:
Systems, process, and technology
Goals, standards, and measurements
Control
Strategic Planning
A way of doing
Directing
Responding and reacting
Continuous Improvement of what is
Leadership:
People context and culture
Preferred future, principles, and purpose
Commitment
Strategic opportunism
A way of being
Serving
Initiating and originating
Innovative breakthroughs to what could be
Both management and leadership skills are needed at the organizational, team, and personal levels. It's not a case of either/or, but and/also. Futurist, Joel Barker provides another helpful distinction between the two roles; "managers manage within paradigms, leaders lead between paradigms". Both are needed. Trying to run an organization with only leadership or management is like trying to cut a page with half a pair of scissors. Leadership and management are a matched set; are both needed to be effective.
Systems and processes (management) for example, are critical to success. You and your organization can be using the latest technologies and be highly focused on customers and those serving them (leadership), but if the methods and approaches you're using to structure and organize your work is weak, your performance will suffer badly. People in your organization can be "empowered", energized, and enlighte
How do you feel about the work you're doing? Are you enlivened? Is your career headed down the path you had in mind? Or do you find yourself wondering whether it's time to make a career change that will help you meet your goals? If you're considering such a change, the enormity of this decision may be weighing on you, as you evaluate a choice that will impact more than your work life.When making career decisions, you'll benefit by breaking the decision down into smaller parts, to help y
Systems, process, and technology
Goals, standards, and measurements
Control
Strategic Planning
A way of doing
Directing
Responding and reacting
Continuous Improvement of what is
Leadership:
People context and culture
Preferred future, principles, and purpose
Commitment
Strategic opportunism
A way of being
Serving
Initiating and originating
Innovative breakthroughs to what could be
Both management and leadership skills are needed at the organizational, team, and personal levels. It's not a case of either/or, but and/also. Futurist, Joel Barker provides another helpful distinction between the two roles; "managers manage within paradigms, leaders lead between paradigms". Both are needed. Trying to run an organization with only leadership or management is like trying to cut a page with half a pair of scissors. Leadership and management are a matched set; are both needed to be effective.
Systems and processes (management) for example, are critical to success. You and your organization can be using the latest technologies and be highly focused on customers and those serving them (leadership), but if the methods and approaches you're using to structure and organize your work is weak, your performance will suffer badly. People in your organization can be "empowered", energized, and enlighte
Questions are the tools of the trade for life coaches. We revel in our clients saying to us, Thats a really good question! A statement usually evoked by a simple, yet profound question such as, What do you want?When someone asks a question, others are compelled to answer it. At the same time, questions stimulate thinking in both the person asking the question and the person answering the question.According to Dorothy Leeds, author of The 7 Powers of Questions: Secrets to
Strategic opportunism
A way of being
Serving
Initiating and originating
Innovative breakthroughs to what could be
Both management and leadership skills are needed at the organizational, team, and personal levels. It's not a case of either/or, but and/also. Futurist, Joel Barker provides another helpful distinction between the two roles; "managers manage within paradigms, leaders lead between paradigms". Both are needed. Trying to run an organization with only leadership or management is like trying to cut a page with half a pair of scissors. Leadership and management are a matched set; are both needed to be effective.
Systems and processes (management) for example, are critical to success. You and your organization can be using the latest technologies and be highly focused on customers and those serving them (leadership), but if the methods and approaches you're using to structure and organize your work is weak, your performance will suffer badly. People in your organization can be "empowered", energized, and enlighte
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Systems and processes (management) for example, are critical to success. You and your organization can be using the latest technologies and be highly focused on customers and those serving them (leadership), but if the methods and approaches you're using to structure and organize your work is weak, your performance will suffer badly. People in your organization can be "empowered", energized, and enlighte
When it comes to the discussion of money, rarely will you find a common ground between the employer and the employee. And, this is true even in the janitorial industry.Since labor is the largest single expense a business owner must face, employers strive to pay as little as possible. Basically, just enough to keep from quitting.On the other hand, employees want the highest pay possible. After all, they have to pay their rent, utilities, and other bills from what the employers
But as the sweeping movement to teams, "empowerment", and involvement intensifies, many more daily management tasks are moving to the front lines where they belong. So leadership becomes even more critical. Unfortunately, many people in so-called leadership positions aren't leaders. They're managers, bureaucrats, technocrats, bosses, administrators, department heads, and the like; but they aren't leaders. On the other hand, some people in individual contributor roles are powerful leaders. Leadership is an action, not a position.
A leader doesn't just react and respond, but rather takes the initiative and generates action. A leader doesn't say "something should be done", but ensures something is done. An effective leader is a "people person". Effective leaders connect, stay in contact with, and are highly visible to everyone on their team and in their organization. Leaders have developed the skills of supercharging logic, data, and analysis with emotion, pride, and the will to win. Their passion and enthusiasm for the team or organization's vision and purpose is highly contagious. They fire the imaginations, develop the capabilities, and build the
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