There are different types of leadership, which get confused or conflated when talking about promotions and organizations. There are people who lead by being exe

There are different types of leadership, which get confused or conflated when talking about promotions and organizations. There are people who lead by being exemplars. Such people might contribute greatly to the organization, yet have minimal management skills. Then again, this also applies to different kinds of management. There are many different kinds and styles of management, which are differently suited to different situations. My wife and I often talk about her managing the "A students" versus the "B students" versus the "C and D students." Note that this is relative. If an organization is pushing into new and difficult terrain, some completely independent A students might become more like B students in the new context. Some "C and D students" might start to thrive in a far messier context. Think of the change of context between training camp, versus combat deployment in Band of Brothers and Hacksaw Ridge. In both of those shows/movies, the people who thrived and contributed the most in one context were very different than in the other context.