Thursday 17 May 2007

Interesting distinction

......heard on telly last night from Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer

Leadership makes change possible
Management makes change happen

As I'm just getting going on my contribution to one of our System courses that will have a managing change flavour it's something to think about. Many people at all levels in organisations make contributions to both leadership and management and I agree that both are needed in bringing about certain kinds of change. But some leadership and management styles seem to me more likely to bring about 'positive' changes than others. Does adaptation of social systems that accompanies climate change for instance need both leadership and management? Depends what sort of changes I suppose.

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