David Maister, who knows his way across
the management/leadership landscape so much better than
almost anyone else that he seems to have been GPS-enabled
while the rest of us were relying on 15thC. parchment
maps, has taken
off from my
post of a few days ago about
leadership. Here he is getting warmed up:
"I keep getting asked about this topic, so
here goes my ten cents worth. I think more rubbish has
been written about ‘leadership’ than almost any other
business topic. A lot of it is patently false, and even
more of it is dangerous."
And I bet you didn’t know that "manager" derives from medieval
French or Italian meaning, roughly, "holder of the horses,"
while "leader" is of Chaucerian-era origins and means one
who chose the expedition’s route, a model "that won’t work,"
David states flatly.
Enough; just go read the whole thing right now.
