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The Strengths Revolution with Steve Morgan | Strengths | Resources | Taking Risks


Welcome to my podcast show, The Strengths Revolution. I focus on everything positive about identifying and using our personal strengths. I also develop my signature theme of 'Positive Risk-Taking, musings on team-working, and interview some fabulous people. I hope you enjoy the content, and please feel free to provide me with any feedback.

Nov 18, 2015

What is the distinction between leadership and management? Do we need to have more of one and less of the other? Ideally we need the good experiences of both. In this episode I explore the future focus of leadership alongside the present focus of management. Using a series of quotes from the literature the contrast and the complimentary nature of both can emerge, and it is for each of us to reflect on how our own experiences resonate with the messages offered. Leadership can not be learned from academic theory, it needs to be experienced, and for the experience to be refined through constructive feedback. Management should be about people more than it is about systems and processes. The primary functions of management have a place, but they should not be enabled to become the mainframe of the picture that people have to fit into. It is the strengths and creativity of people that contributes most to achievement, not the managerial tools and targets.