Leadership and Management
shoemoney
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I recently headed to Phoenix and on my trip there and back I listened to Seth Godin's newest book - Tribes. This was my 3rd time listening to Seth's book. 
Most of Seth's books either teach me new concepts, help me learn more about myself or understand why what I am doing is either working or not working.
In this book, Tribes, Seth talks about the importance of leadership and why people, even on the Internet, need leaders to connect them with other leaders, ideas and movements. For me, one of the key things I took away from the book was Seth's theory on the two different ways to run or lead your "tribe".
Management Style - Seth defines management as manipulating resources to accomplish a task. He also goes on to talk about how managers use fear to get people to do what they want them to do. I think we see this a lot in politics. For instance, right now President Obama is saying that we "have" to sign his pork latent stimulus bill into law or our country may never recover financially.
My wife is a born manager. She loves to manage people and has no problem putting the fear of God in them in order to get things done.
Leadership Style - Leaders run their tribe by coming up with great ideas and inspiring others. They lead by example. Leadership is about creating the change you believe in. I think this is a huge reason why President Obama won the 2008 Presidential race. His campaign had leadership written all over it.
I have always used this leadership style but never actually realized it until this book. My biggest failure, I've learned however, has been in managing people. I just always want people to do their job because they have as much passion as I do. I feel I have a great team now of people that are much better suited for a leadership role rather than a management role.
The main point Seth makes is that BOTH styles are needed in order for a successful leader to lead a successful tribe. After listening to this book, I started examining all of my friends' businesses that are massively successful. Guess what? In every one of these businesses there is a leader and a manager.
I highly recommend Tribes.
Most of Seth's books either teach me new concepts, help me learn more about myself or understand why what I am doing is either working or not working.
In this book, Tribes, Seth talks about the importance of leadership and why people, even on the Internet, need leaders to connect them with other leaders, ideas and movements. For me, one of the key things I took away from the book was Seth's theory on the two different ways to run or lead your "tribe".
Management Style - Seth defines management as manipulating resources to accomplish a task. He also goes on to talk about how managers use fear to get people to do what they want them to do. I think we see this a lot in politics. For instance, right now President Obama is saying that we "have" to sign his pork latent stimulus bill into law or our country may never recover financially.
My wife is a born manager. She loves to manage people and has no problem putting the fear of God in them in order to get things done.
Leadership Style - Leaders run their tribe by coming up with great ideas and inspiring others. They lead by example. Leadership is about creating the change you believe in. I think this is a huge reason why President Obama won the 2008 Presidential race. His campaign had leadership written all over it.
I have always used this leadership style but never actually realized it until this book. My biggest failure, I've learned however, has been in managing people. I just always want people to do their job because they have as much passion as I do. I feel I have a great team now of people that are much better suited for a leadership role rather than a management role.
The main point Seth makes is that BOTH styles are needed in order for a successful leader to lead a successful tribe. After listening to this book, I started examining all of my friends' businesses that are massively successful. Guess what? In every one of these businesses there is a leader and a manager.
I highly recommend Tribes.