From Good to Great

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What is leadership? Harvard Professor John P. Kotter, who has explained the difference between managers and true leaders, is credited as having coined this term. While referring to managers rather as administrators who are in charge of perfectly organizing, planning, and monitoring corporate processes, he describes leaders as visionaries who inspire and encourage others with visions, thus, according to Kotter, stimulating creativity, innovation, meaningful fulfillment, and change. Both are archetypal leading figures that in practice are usually confronted with mutual lack of understanding. Leaders are not better than managers any more than mangers are better than leaders. They are both types of leading personalities. It is only personalities that lead and only personalities that are followed. Also, managers cannot be leaders at the same time. Visionary leaderships key to success must therefore be accompanied by a management system aimed at order and perfection. [...]

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Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management University

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