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

Glen B. Alleman wrote:

> The "enabling" outcome you seek may be considered a second order effect of
leading or managing.
> It may also be a "style" of leadership. As a former US Naval Officer, I
would not characterize my
> "leading" a flight of 4 A-6's over North Vietnam as an "enabling" role.
Nor was it "management."
> It did "enable" us to drop bombs on targets, but that was a second effect
for us, but a first order
> effect for the target. Granted that domain was command and control, and
"leading" or "managing"
> a group of XP developers as "not" command and control, but it seems to me
that enabling is an
> outcome not an action of the leader or manager.

I think you do yourself a disservice here Glen.
Surely you "enabled" your colleagues by ensuring that they had the skills,
temperament and equipment to perform the role, which you then "lead" them in
the execution of.

Dave P


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