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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. Joel is out of balance with a techno-management approach. She sees people as adults who are generally self-managing. Joel uses position power to make people have to.

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business Review

The message for managers is clear: this is the way to outcompete your business rivals; these are the traits that will bring you and your company commercial victory. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Why sports metaphors are damaging. ” Research backs this up.

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

And don’t delegate purpose to marketing. McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.”

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