... 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. ↩
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