Category Archives: Leadership versus management
Success in the Workplace: Your Interests, Personality, and Communication Style Do Matter
The key to finding a successful career is to begin your search in a field about which you are passionate. In order to pursue your true aspirations, it is imperative that you know what type of work suits you best … Continue reading
Time For a Project Premortem?
In most organizations, it’s common practice to conduct “postmortem” or lessons learned review sessions upon completion of major projects. If the project achieved its goal, management questions typically focus on what went right. What did we do well? How can … Continue reading
Leadership Versus Management in Amendment Management – Does it Matter and If Therefore Why?
Are you a pacesetter or a manager – is there a distinction? Do you recognize what it is? Will it matter? Whilst there is much emphasis on the management facet of modification, abundant of the underlying cause of the catastrophic … Continue reading
Coaching Versus Managing
Bill Parcells, of the New York Jets knows better than most that being a head coach in the National Football League, though exciting and rewarding when you win, also takes a heavy personal toll. The following story is laminated and … Continue reading
Deming’s 14 Points And Quality Project Leadership
Quality is misunderstood by many who think of it only as it relates to the final deliverable, but a quality product is itself achieved only through quality processes focused on efficiency, innovation, and continual improvement, and these require a quality … Continue reading
Management Training
Management is an art that most people don’t have time to teach. The modern business world is fraught enough as it is, with emails stacking up in even the lowliest employee’s inbox while the executive end of the company chases … Continue reading
Two Questions to Help You Change Your Leadership Style
Do you want to change your leadership style? Perhaps you’ve discovered something in particular that you want to do, or do differently. And this, of course, is the problem. You want to change something you do, but the folks in … Continue reading
The Key Causes of Failure in Leadership
In my last article I reviewed Napoleon Hill’s list of the 11 attributes that he believed most contributed to the success or failure of a leader, gleaned during his 20 years of interviewing the most successful men and women in … Continue reading
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Technicians Versus Managers/leaders
I am sure we all agree that there is more to leadership and management than most technicians can handle, unless they have been adequately trained on and off the job. One cannot assume that a good technician e.g. accountant, engineer, … Continue reading
Define Leadership and Exercise it – The Missing Key Success Factor in Change Management
How you define and exercise leadership in the present climate will be a significant determinant in your organisation’s fortunes – and especially in the context of change management. Let’s define leadership: Leadership is the process by which a person influences … Continue reading