The Balanced Manager

Effective management by leadership demands a delicate balance between:

• sensitivity and authority

• the whole, i.e. organizational needs, and the parts, be they large (functions) or small (teams or individuals)

• creating short-term profits and results and building the → long term capacity to compete

• Loose-Tight Leadership Style

• functional expertise (depth of knowledge) and cross-functional excellence (width of knowledge)

• internal (creating value for organization and employees) and external (creating value for investors, customers, and society as a whole)... More

Two Common Traits of Great Leaders and Managers

❶ They have a desire to employ people with greater skills or knowledge than they themselves possess

❷ They have a desire and an ability to develop people into leaders themselves  >>>

Corporate Leader

Main Tasks of Business Leaders

Building Leadership Skills for Your Business

30 Lessons from Konosuke Matsushita

18 Lessons for Leaders by Colin Powell

New Management Model

Balanced Manager

What Today's Workplace Needs Its Leaders To Do

Enterprise-wide Business Process Thinking

Management by Consciousness

Leadership-Management Synergy

To maximize your long-term success you should strive to be both a manager and a leader and to synergize their functions.

Merely possessing management skills is no longer sufficient for success as an executive in today's business world. You need to understand the differences between managing and leading and know how to integrate the two roles to achieve organizational success... More