Did Bennis Miss the Mark?
A common trend by popular authors is to describe leadership by defining the difference between managers and leaders. In the most famous example, Bennis and Goldsmith (1997) assert that managers do things right, while leaders do the right things. This is a short description, but not all that descriptive. Buckingham (2005) claims that great managers [...]
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David Burkus is the editor of LeaderLab, a community of resources dedicated to promoting the practice of leadership theory. He is an executive coach, a sought-after speaker and an adjunct professor of business at several universities.