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# Leadership and Management
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/201296leadership-and-management/
- Published: 2012-09-06T13:43:54.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:29:22.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Leadership, #DashHouseCom, #wp

I’m finding John Kotter’s book *What Leaders Really Do* to be very helpful. Kotter tackles a number of important topics: the one implied by the title, as well as the differences between leadership and management, and why transformation efforts fail.

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[John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do](http://www.amazon.ca/John-Kotter-What-Leaders-Really/dp/0875848974%3FSubscriptionId%3D0ENGV10E9K9QDNSJ5C82%26tag%3Ddashhouse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0875848974?ref=dashhouse.com)

Leadership is a murky topic, especially in the church. Some overemphasize leadership. Others dismiss it completely. I always find it ironic that the anti-leadership movement often seems to be to be very well led. Irony abounds.

Here are some notes I took from a section of the book that I found particularly helpful:

- Leadership is not about charisma or exotic personality traits, nor does it belong to a select few.
- Most organizations are over-managed and under-led.
- Leadership and management are complementary. Both are needed. Contrary to popular opinion, you can manage and lead at the same time.
- Management is about coping with complexity. Leadership is about coping with change.
- Management is more deductive, and designed to produce orderly results. Leadership is more inductive, and creates visions and strategies, not plans.
- Visions and strategies don’t need to be brilliantly innovative. The best are not.

Leadership isn’t everything, nor is it nothing. I find books like this one helpful as I continue to wrestle with the nature of leadership, particularly within the church.

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