“Leaders are movers and shakers, original, inventive, unpredicatable, imaginative, full of surprises that discomfit the enemy in war and the main office in peace. For the managers are safe, conservative, predictable, conforming organization men and team players, dedicated to the establishment” (Hugh Nibley, “Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift”).
Now the distinction is of course overstated, but the thrust, attitude, tone, and mentality between leadership and management are indeed very different. Leadership must embrace this duality of building up and tearing down, preserving and disturbing. but Captain Grace Hopper was right, you don’t manage people into battle.
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