RE: Management and Leadership

["Julian Simcox" <julian@in-quest.co.uk>]

myron's story is a nice example of the difference between management &
leadership

the person most associated with using this example is stephen covey

in 1995 i was fortunate to meet stephen and also (separately) peter
scholtes - peter drew my attention to the possibility of seeing management
and leadership as separate systems (or processes)

this led me to use the phrases managing and leading as a continual reminder
of this - the processes of managing and leading

with help from collagues we have now defined these as


MANAGING is a process or system or relationship
aimed at producing predictability, stability and order.

LEADING is a process or system or relationship
aimed at producing change to bring about a new reality

the respective purposes being to:


(a)	make things (change) happen, and
(b)	maintain a level of comfort based upon some aspects of life being
ordered and stable/ predictable, as a base for being 	able to do (a) make
things happen.

we have also mapped the two processes using flowcharts

i wonder what denizens can add or subtract from these definitions?

julian simcox

bristol
england