Comments on: What is the Difference Between Leadership and Management? http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/ Fortify Your Startup Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:09:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jimtybur http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-55 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:38:10 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-55 Good point Shail, great leaders are teaching at the same time and growing the next generation of leaders. Check out the slides from Professor O’Reilly, he makes this same point as well toward the end.

]]> By: Shail http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-54 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:33:28 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-54 Jim,

Excellent post, thanks for sharing. Certainly the CEO is critical and one should balance leadership and management, and yes it is tricky as you say. That said, leadership takes different forms, and there are instances where leadership and management are mutually exclusive (aside from the CEO role).

‘Barbarians to Bureaucrats’ depicts this well, as I am sure, so do other books. It’s an art as it is experiential, on how a CEO balances the tug and pull of leadership desires from within the team. After all when one is ‘inspiring the team to win’ one is also inspiring some to become leaders.

Shail

]]> By: jimtybur http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-53 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:15:01 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-53 Agreed, that was a key takeaway from the evening event – balancing the right mix of management vs. leadership is critical but very tricky.

]]> By: Nick Mehta http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-52 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:55:50 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-52 Excellent post, Jim. The Davita video is inspiring. Wow. One question I ponder some times is how does the ratio of required leadership : management from a CEO vary depending on company size / stage. From my limited experience, in smaller companies, CEOs have to be leaders AND managers (and pretty active at that) given the tenuousness of the venture and the rapid change inherent in any small company.

]]> By: jimtybur http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-49 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:14:08 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-49 Ah, now I see what you meant. And I totally agree. Silicon Valley and tech industry in general is littered with examples of innovations that were too early, just slightly off or just faced too much competition at that point in history such that they never quite become an enduring commercial success, yet paved the way for future winners around the same concepts or technologies. Napster comes to mind for me and how it paved the way for the amazingly successful iPod and Apple resurgence.

]]> By: Uday Subbarayan http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-48 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:50:26 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-48 Jim,
It’s little tricky to explain my statement w/o quoting examples and hope, i don’t offend any one.

[1] HP e-speak project
It’s a failed one. It’s dead now. But including myself say that this project is success because it enabled the Webservices or SOA paradigm in distributed computing.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-150.html
(failed but success)

[2]VMware
It may be surprising now to hear that it got rejected by some investors in the beginning but look at the result- it created an industry today.
(winning the game)

]]> By: jimtybur http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-47 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:34:30 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-47 Thx Brett, the credit goes especially to Patricia and Noel for spearheading the event.

]]> By: Brett Wilson http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-46 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:04:32 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-46 A few glasses of wine and the wisdom begins to flow :) . Thanks to Jim and his colleagues as it was an enjoyable event and the attendees were first class.

]]> By: Anurag Jain http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-45 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:35:49 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-45 Great quote by Brett. It drives the point succintly and most effectively. plain awesomeness!

]]> By: jimtybur http://irongiving.com/2009/10/09/what-is-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/#comment-44 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:23:08 +0000 http://irongiving.com/?p=362#comment-44 Thx Uday, glad you found the info useful. Can you elaborate on your last point “Failure can be also defined as success but winning is not…”?

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