Re: Leadership and Management - is NOT about decision making or control, is it?

Hi Scott,

 > Hi Dale, knew you would jump in here ;) and I agree, that
 > magers and leaders need to do work as thier title states,

I was thinking "manager" as "one who manages," and not as a 
title.  I've known people whose title said "manager" who did not 
manage.  I've known people who managed, but did not have 
"manager" in their title.

 > but the focus of this work should be on enablement and removal
 > of obstacles.

I think that fits most of the time.  And if the manager works 
only for the team, and has no other stakeholders, it works all of 
the time.

I may be stuck on something.  I think of a manager as being 
/primarily/ responsible to the larger organization.  Most of the 
time, that responsibility is eminently served by enabling the 
team and removing obstacles.  But in some situations, the manager 
will not see a way to satisfy that primary responsibility and 
also do what the team sees as in its interest.  To me it's the 
possibility of those situations that makes a manager a /manager/, 
and not some other kind of facilitator.

That is, if a person's primary responsibility is to the team, 
that person does not fit my image of manager.  I may need to 
change my image, but that's the image I have for now.

Dale

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