Or is it Leadership *and* Management?
I created this graphic in 2019 as part of a presentation on High Performing Teams for the IT Leaders Conference.
Inspired by Grace Hopper’s “You manage things, you lead people” quote, I wanted to make the point that great leadership also requires great management skills. You can be a great manager of things without leadership skills, but you can’t be a great leader without good management skills. Without those management skills, you may be able to lead people, but your lack of direction, effectiveness, and capability could lead to failure.
Sometimes management and leadership are presented as a binary, or worse, that “management” is bad and “leadership” is good. Neither is true: we should resist “leaderism“, and instead concentrate on the actual capabilities and skills required to manage things, and lead people. Both can be learned, taught, and always improved. We dive into this much deeper over at psychsafety.com, where we examine the capabilities and skills required for both excellent management and leadership.
(Since 2019, this graphic has gone a bit viral on LinkedIn, Chegg, Twitter and elsewhere!)
The fabulous Elita Silva translated the management and leadership graphic into Portuguese!
And the fabulous Ana Aneiros Vivas has translated it into Spanish!
Filippo Poletti translated it into Italian!
And the folk at Solutions and Performances – Executive Search have translated it into French!
