FOLLOW THE LEADER
can offer a person is the chance to contribute to a worthwhile cause...
Management is ministry for helping people. It helps its employees to
make a contribution to something worthwhile.^58
- Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system
of people and technology running smoothly. The most important
aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organizing,
staffing, controlling, and problem-solving. Leadership is a set of
processes that creates organizations in the first place, or adapts them
to significantly changing circumstances. Leadership defines what the
future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them
to make it happen despite the obstacles...For every entrepreneur or
business builder who is a leader, we need hundreds of
managers to run their ever-growing enterprises...The job
of management is to win in the short term while making sure you’re
in an even stronger position to win in the future...Systematically
targeting objectives and budgeting for them, creating plans to achieve
those objectives, organizing for implementation and then controlling
the process to keep it on track – this is the essence of management.^59
- Management activity may be reduced to two basic categories: the
management of things and ideas. These represent the irreducible
minimums of management. Unfortunately, people often fall into
the things category...The leader or manager interested in progress
- or in an organization’s existence beyond the present – must make
management of ideas his top priority. What an organization will
be tomorrow depends on how well it manages peoples’ ideas today...
The leader or manager is responsible for creating a positive work
environment. People have unlimited potential to be creative and
achieve greater levels of productivity.^60
- SYNERGY:
- ‘Accomplishing tasks through people’ is a different paradigm than
‘building people through the accomplishment of tasks.’ With one, you
get things done. With the other, you get them done with far
greater creativity, synergy, and effectiveness...and in the process, you
build the capacity to do more in the future as well.^61
- Insecure people think that all reality should be amenable to their
paradigms. They have a high need to clone others, to mold them over
