What Leaders Really Do

I was having this conversation recently and mentioned this article, and low-and-behold this morning it appears in my feed. (This post isn't my usual complaint about algorithms although my issues there continue to be the same). 

This article was first written in 1977, when Harvard Business School professor Abraham Zaleznik published an HBR article with the deceptively mild title “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?”, which caused an uproar in business schools. 

Today, leadership is formally taught in a distinct way from management in MBA degrees and other courses, so it appears the answer to this 40+yo question is "yes". 

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This article was first published on LinkedIn and is also on my business consulting blog.