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You don’t “manage” people. The task is always to lead people.

-Peter Drucker

How many times are we seen comparisons between “management” and “leadership”? Warren Bennis, one of my personal favorite leadership authors, informs us that “management is performing things right; leadership does what’s right.” But you are “doings things right”, and “doing the right thing” mutually exclusive? Can’t we’ve both? Obviously we are able to. Furthermore, we’d like in the order for the “service and knowledge” based economy to hit your objectives. Research already shows organizations will flounder under management, but will thrive under leadership.

Most of the concepts of recent management were first created back through the Industrial Revolution, when we first developed industry and manufacturing and factories. Foremen were accountable for managing those factories, like the machines, equipment, resources, schedules, and also the factory laborers. The foremen would soon discover that the factory workers didn’t like being managed as if we were holding machines, and the workers resisted. The outcomes were labor strikes and also the development of labor unions. Well that is no real surprise. And it’s hardly surprising that unions still exist today.

Now it is the season 2011, almost 220 years following your Industrial Revolution, and far lots of managers still need a commercial Revolution mentality in doing their duties. Yet our economy will no longer is determined by machines and manual labor for production. Service and data is the thing that our economy produces, with 80% of our Gross Domestic Product coming from people. Production emanates from workers who provide services and expertise, instead of machines and factories. But our management mentality has not progressed while using times. Rather than adapting to an alternative economy, management behaviors reflect the thinking about the 1800s. We now have not given the leap towards leadership.

Here are several simple realities:

- Machines and operations are managed.

- Projects and resources are managed.

- Goals and objectives are managed.

- Tasks and deadlines are managed.

- Time is managed.

- Budget is managed.