Leader vs. Manager vs. Executive

Leader vs. Manager vs. Executive … one of these 3 terms does not belong here. Which one? Leader! In business, leadership is a trait of a manager useful to exert formal authority in interacting with others. It is also a trait of the informal leaders, people that are managers of expertise. Leadership is a concept to be...

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What is a Team?

An effective team is not just a bunch of people put together. It is about complementarity of employee’s competencies, it takes time and if one member leaves, the team hurts. A team does not have what is called “group thinking”. A team does not a leader as in somebody to lead. A team needs a manager that is, most of...

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Operant Learning Theory

Despite the civilized formulation, basically Operant Learning Theory is learning by reward or punishment, and is applied in organizations through Transactional Leadership. A certain behavior probability can be increased by the positive or negative reinforcement. Most of the means of reinforcement of employees’ behavior are...

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Leadership vs. Followership

Leadership and/vs. Management. One or other is better. You can not have one without the other. A lot of talk on this subject. I am convinced that we need even more. There is gold in the research data and there are diamonds in the experience of seasoned executives. Without saying anything new: a leader is the one that influences the...

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Management by Objectives (MBO) … NOT

Why not Management by Obejctives (MBO)? Because a smart man told something different in 1986: Out of the Crisis – Edwards Deming. You can look at it as being just an irony or you can see it as a wake-up call. We are in a crisis. Guilty of it is nobody or everybody. The simple answer to a crisis is: let’s change...

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