The Manager's Pocket Guide to Leadership Skills

 

Earning Followers in Your Leadership Role

“Management techniques are obviously essential, but what matters is leadership. Leading the whole organization needs wisdom and flair and vision and they are another matter; they cannot be reduced to a system and incorporated into a training manual.”Anthony Jay

The title makes an interesting point. It is difficult to be considered a leader if you have no followers. What makes this point so significant is that you can be a supervisor or manager and have no followers—all you need is employees. To take this point one step further, you can still be considered a supervisor, even if you are ineffective in ...