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In my opinion for the majority of the cases you manage systems and lead people. Improving the organisational system so that the individuals can effectively do
by Guthur 6y ago
In my opinion for the majority of the cases you manage systems and lead people.
Improving the organisational system so that the individuals can effectively do their job is an important activity. This requires collecting reasonable information to feed into developing your hypotheses on how to improve the system. This I feel is management.
Ensure that the individual team members can understand how they are contributing the overall company aim, feel motivate to learn and work, and generally understand how they are fitting into the organisational system is leadership.
There is an exception when an individual has deviated strongly from your average team member and that requires case by case analysis.
The distinction might seem a little pedantic and I'm continually evaluating my perspective on leadership but I do feel there is reason to make some distinction and that it might avoid some of the pitfalls of leadership such as micro management and individual demotivation.
- TheColorYellow 6y agoI really think this nails it. Management of people requires a very empathetic, highly personalized approach. It's really all about motivation and the levers you can use are not always in line with the company objectives. High performance companies and teams are usually the ones that can find a way to sync up the people objectives with the company objectives for a long enough time to deliver products and services into a marketplace. Meanwhile, organizational management is much more of a systems thinking approach that requires classical engineering skills. It requires technical and domain expertise plus intimate knowledge of the existing practices, processes, and environments. Which makes sense as to why most managers in the software development field fail. They know the organizational side of things well but the people side is overlooked. And now the spectrum is swinging towards people managers without the requisite organizational skills and we're left with a new set of problems.