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We Need More Managers - Not "Leaders"!

In the last decade or so, business andinformation, or any other resource -- and
management academics, writers, "gurus" andmatch those resources to tasks.So while
executives alike have all touted theleadership may be responsible for determining
importance of leadership.They've writtenwhat the goal is, management is crucial to
about it. They've spoken about it. They'veachieving it.Based on that, management is
conducted MBA courses on it. They'vejust as important to achieving a goal as
practiced it.And they've certainly worshippedleadership wouldn't you say?And typically,
it.And so they should. Leadership isfor every leader with a compelling vision, a
critical, right? It's what gives companiesbusiness needs a certain number of managers
direction -- what drives them onward andto organize the work and the workers, in
upward to success.Without leadership aorder to achieve that vision. (It also needs
company would be all dressed up with nowherean even greater number of workers but that's
to go.And please don't confuse it withthe subject of another article!).So... if the
management. Leadership captivates us with theaverage business needs more managers than
why and what; management bores us with theleaders... why doesn't the business
how, who, when and where.Leaders are the"intelligentsia" give equal -- if not greater
visionaries. The thinkers. Those exceptionalemphasis -- to the development of management
"big picture" people who inspire us toskills than to leadership skills?Possibly
embrace their vision for thebecause too much emphasis has been given to
future.Managers... well they're the peoplemanagement than to leadership in the past...
who can't lead. Managers lack big pictureor possibly because having a big vision and
vision; they too mired in the details -- theinspiring people is so much sexier than the
small picture. And they're too busynitty-gritty of preparing budgets, hiring
organizing than orchestrating.Only it's thepeople, delegating tasks, monitoring
managers who actually get us where we want toperformance, choosing vendors, and the
go. After all, what good is it having a road"mundane" tasks of management.Or perhaps the
toward the future without an operational cartasks of a manager are just plain
to get us there?It seems to me that in allobvious...So obvious that many executives,
this glorification of leaders andprofessionals, entrepreneurs and small
leadership... managers and management havebusiness owners find themselves in management
been unjustly maligned... To the point wherepositions... where they're full of vision and
"management" is equated with beinggrand plans... but can't get the people they
small-minded, reactive, controlling, evenmanage to actually do the things necessary to
stifling.As a result, while up-and-comingaccomplish that plan and those grand
professionals, executives, entrepreneurs andplans!Enough already!We need more managers --
small business owners, focus on developingor should I say people with management skills
leadership skills... they neglect to develop-- not more leaders. Big dreams abound... the
management skills. The very skills that getcapabilities to access and allocate resources
things done.What skills are these?Well, in myto achieve those big dreams are in far too
opinion, management is basically aboutshort supply.Anna Johnson is the author of
allocating resources to achieve a goal. Greatthe How To Manage People System, including
managers do a little more than that, but theher book, How To Manage People (Even If
manager's role is essentially to allocateYou're A Control Freak!).
resources -- whether people, money, tools,



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