Tag: Leadership vs Management

Leadership

Leadership Can’t be Taught, it needs to be Learnt

In this short video about learning, I reference a blog post by John Hunter from 2014, which I still find incredibly relevant today. My key point centered on the difference between managing and leading, and how we typically teach these concepts. Drawing on Dr. Edward Deming’s ideas, I emphasized that while instruction can be very direct, truly effective leadership comes from hands-on experience. Considering today’s rapidly evolving world, developing the ability to both manage and lead requires a much deeper grasp of the intricate and ever-changing systems we operate within. This understanding doesn’t just come from traditional teaching methods; it’s […]

Leadership

The 3 M’s of Effective Management

I read a post in which the author – Daniel Gross, tried to summarise his learning from the recently concluded COP26 Summit. What he shares is not only applicable for how he summarised the COP26 Summit, but to management in general as well. Lately, I have been talking a lot about leadership and how important it is to lead. However, in that conversation, we should not forget the importance of management as well. If we have to think of both leadership and management, I would say, that leadership is like driving a car in a high traffic area or when […]