Change Leadership

The management methodologies that helped successfully develop

enterprises throughout the 20th century are no longer sufficient. Driving
results in a world of ever-increasing change requires a new kind of leadership.

Management is about coping with complexity. Its practices and procedures

are largely responses to one of the most significant developments of the
twentieth century: the emergence of large organizations.
Without good management, complex enterprises tend to become chaotic in
ways that threaten their very existence. Good management brings a degree
of order and consistency to key dimensions like the quality and profitability of
products.

Leadership, by contrast, is about coping with change. Part of the reason it has
become so important in recent years is that the business world has become
more competitive and more volatile.

Faster technological change, greater international competition, the

deregulation of markets, overcapacity in capital-intensive industries, an
unstable oil cartel, raiders with junk bonds, and the changing demographics
of the work-force are among the many factors that have contributed to this
shift.

The net result is that doing what was done yesterday, or doing it 5% better, is
no longer a formula for success. Major changes are more and more necessary
to survive and compete effectively in this new environment. More change
always demands more leadership.

What is the difference between management and leadership?

Management makes systems of people and technology work well day after
day, week after week, year after year.

Planning and budgeting

Organizing and staffing
Controlling and problem solving
Taking complex systems of people and technology and making them run
efficiently and effectively, hour after hour, day after day

Leadership creates the systems that managers manage and changes them in
fundamental ways to take advantage of opportunities and to avoid hazards

Creating vision and strategy

Communicating and setting direction
Motivating action
Aligning people
Creating systems that managers can manage and transforming them when
needed to allow for growth, evolution, opportunities, and hazard avoidance

The Difference Between Management and Leadership

The Key Differences Between Leading and M