... for the last 30 years, it has been ideas about leadership, not management, that have come to dominate our conversations and our bookshelves. We believe it is time to redress the balance. Leadership is about the traits and behaviors that make us worth following. Management is about how we get work done through others.1
As you read Organisational Coaching, you may notice that I always refer to "managers" and "management". This often causes grief as someone comes back with the inevitable, "we need leaders and not managers".
When did management become such as bad thing?
Birkenshaw J and Goddard J,What is Your Management Model?, MITSloan Management Review, Winter 2009, Volume 50, No. 2. ↩
The previous post on Coach or Consultant? may have mistakenly given the impression that consultants are bad. Far from it. The intent of that post was to differentiate consultants and coaches.
When do you want a consultant and when do you want a coach?
With the rise of coaching as a trendy thing to do, many consultants have stopped calling themselves "consultants" and started calling themselves "coaches".
This is both unfortunate and misleading. Coaches and Consultants are not the same. So what are the differences between coaches and consultants?
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