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Entries Tagged as 'Management'

Three Different Leaders of the Technician the Manager and the Entrepreneur

November 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Michael E. Gerber 
Michael E. Gerber wrote the groundbreaking book, The E-Myth, as a discussion about the obstacles that entrepreneurs encounter in starting a business. One part of the book discusses three different roles in an organization – the technician, the manager, and the entrepreneur. Gerber assigns a definition to each of these roles with a [...]

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Tags: Defining Leadership · Leadership · Leadership vs Management · Management · Micheal Gerber · To Be · To Do

7 Steps to Lead Without Inherent Talent

August 8th, 2007 · 9 Comments

You don’t have to be the smartest or, even necessarily, the best to rise to positions of leadership.
 Leadership quote from Peter Drucker:
“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of [...]

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Tags: Delegating · Leadership · Management · Peter Drucker · Planning · To Do

What is the Difference Between Leadership and Management?

May 9th, 2007 · 9 Comments

I have often heard the terms used interchangeably, but there is a difference. Beside the definitions of the terms, there is a real, practical, and meaningful differentiation.
Management is planning and organizing projects and operations, allocating resources to minimize costs and maximize benefits, directing practices and procedures, establishing controls to measure the effectiveness and efficiencies, and [...]

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Tags: Books · Leadership · Leadership vs Management · Management · Stephen Covey