Crying our lungs out, resting in the hands of a doctor this is how we came into this world. With our birth, we were given a name by our parents and everyone used to call us by that name. As we grew up we started responding to that name and it became our identity for the rest of our lives.
We daily come across several quotes, stories, case studies on managers vs leaders and the best description in a single phrase is "Managing is role but leadership is the attribute."
Every leader is ought to be a good manager but not vice versa. Hence being just a manager is not enough.
The question is why the corporate world loves word 'manager' so much when we all know we want leaders. It is fascinating to witness companies spending millions, on one hand, to develop leaders among their employees while designating them as managers only.
This is same as calling out someone's else name but wants to call someone else. This paradoxical condition is the managerial syndrome which further develops leadership deficiency syndrome by which maximum companies are suffering these days.
Why don't we designate our employees with the term 'leaders' in it?
Be it any function or any grade, remove the term manager and start using leader instead. Area sales leader, marketing leader, national sales leader and so on. Just changing the name changes what is expected from the employees.
People don't work with companies, people work with people. People only create companies and in turn companies create people. A manager can only develop another manager, it's a leader who creates another leader. The problem with today's corporate world is not lack of leadership, but the excess of managerial attitude.
The name is a powerful tool to make us feel who we are and respond accordingly. The same power corporate designation has on us.
You all must have come across several corporate designations and most of you must be holding a designation which includes the term 'manager' in it. Whether it's any function, be it sales, marketing, human resource, operations or finance, all incorporate the term 'manager' in their designation.
Not only at function but also at every employee grade, manager term is used in the designations
We daily come across several quotes, stories, case studies on managers vs leaders and the best description in a single phrase is "Managing is role but leadership is the attribute."
Every leader is ought to be a good manager but not vice versa. Hence being just a manager is not enough.
The question is why the corporate world loves word 'manager' so much when we all know we want leaders. It is fascinating to witness companies spending millions, on one hand, to develop leaders among their employees while designating them as managers only.
This is same as calling out someone's else name but wants to call someone else. This paradoxical condition is the managerial syndrome which further develops leadership deficiency syndrome by which maximum companies are suffering these days.
Why don't we designate our employees with the term 'leaders' in it?
Be it any function or any grade, remove the term manager and start using leader instead. Area sales leader, marketing leader, national sales leader and so on. Just changing the name changes what is expected from the employees.
People don't work with companies, people work with people. People only create companies and in turn companies create people. A manager can only develop another manager, it's a leader who creates another leader. The problem with today's corporate world is not lack of leadership, but the excess of managerial attitude.
If a company hires a potential leader, the seed of leadership in him is not nourished and crushed under a load of managers and thus leading to the lack of leadership.
The managerial syndrome starts with the designation itself. Small changes can lead to the big difference, change the name and change everything.
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