Leading or Driving

August 28th, 2010 by admin

 Are you a leader or a driver? Leadership is not about coercing people into doing your bidding. Anyone can force people to do what they want or it if you have the ability to take away someone’s livelihood you can probably get them to accomplish all kinds of things in play by threatening them. But this isn’t leadership. This isn’t leading. It’s driving. If you want to be a leader you need to focus on leading. That means doing things in a way that people will follow you even if you cannot threaten them. Most people don’t understand this. In particular mid-level managers think Aaron the leadership role when they’re actually just driving people. That’s not to say that they couldn’t become leaders, just the best not how they’re operating. They’re driving methods may work and may be appropriate for the situation, but they shouldn’t delude themselves into thinking that they actually have some leadership skills when there aren’t practicing any form of leadership whatsoever.

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