Don’t know who said this, but it has stuck with me for years:
“Managing means doing things right. Leading means doing the right thing. Sometimes they match, sometimes they don’t.”
Discuss. 🙂
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And that’s why leadership can be done at any level. And why it is so hard. Sometimes leading has short-term negative consequences. But I believe it leads to long-term success.