Leadership Continuum or Management Continuum?

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The Leadership Continuum Model shows management styles from "autocratic" to "full control". Most managers do not make good leaders and vise versa. A leader is a visionary, one who can motivate employees to work toward the common goal. A leader sets the tone for vision and mission statements, earns respect from subordinates, great speaking skills. Managers are focused of departmental functions entailing procedures, processes, and highly detail-oriented aspects of daily function. (...) Read more? Sign up for free

		Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	Managers or Leaders? Thanks Gary. Note that the world 'leader' can have different meanings for different people in different cultures in different times in different circumstances. Tannebaum and Schmidt clearly used it as approximate synonym for the current word 'manager', not in a visionary-high level way.

		Gregory Johnson Coach, United States
	Leadership or Management I agree with Gary 100%. I am currently writing an (...)

		Michael Ogunfowora Manager, Nigeria
	Charismatic Leadership @Greg Johnson: a leader should be charismatic havi (...)

		Gregory Johnson Coach, United States
	Charismatic Leadership Charisma does not make one a leader. We have a ple (...)

		Tim Dibble Project Manager, United States
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