There is room to perform both of your roles in leadership – manager and leader. Just make sure you prioritize them in the correct order. What’s the difference between a leader and manager? Maybe you ...

Managing and leading are different tasks, but principals do both and can use these ideas to juggle the overlapping priorities of their jobs.

Last week’s article The Leadership Checklist: 10 Principles That Make Leading Easier, generated some interesting thoughts as shared through various social media outlets. Many readers tended to hone in ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. You often hear the words "manager" and "leader" used interchangeably in conversations about ...

Oftentimes, the words “leader” and “manager” become synonymous with each other. This is perhaps explained by the fact that people expect the leader of any organization to be adept at managing it too.

Warren Bennis, one of the pioneers of contemporary leadership studies, was fond of saying, “The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.” It’s a distinction that should speak ...

What's the difference between leadership and management? The debate has continued for decades. A company CEO is expected to show leadership, which is often an unlearned trait, while a manager can be ...

Let’s get something straight: Manager and leader are not synonymous terms. Manage implies maintaining the status quo. It’s a manager’s job to ensure that things go as planned and that the team meets ...

Getting a seat on a company board might feel like sitting at the top of the food chain, and as leaders of our companies, we might all assume we know how to take the lead on a board. But running a ...

If you were asked to imagine a manager, you might well conjure up someone comically boring, desk-bound and monotonal. Now do the same for a leader. You may well be picturing someone delivering a ...