How effectively can YOU manage in the shark invested waters of hyper-competition?

How management differs from leadership is explained in the leadership section. Here the focus is on how to think about organizations in general and organizational dynamics.

• Renewal vs execution
• Being entrepreneurial
• Learning organizations

Management - how it adds value

• Management is not seen to be as glamorous as leadership.
• Organizations today need to be dynamic, not mechanistic.
• Management is said to be mechanistic.
• But all organizations need efficiency as much as innovation.
• Today's profits are needed to fund tomorrow's growth.
• It is the manager's task to invest all resources wisely to obtain the best possible return and performance.
• Management is like investment - allocating and nurturing all resources to obtain maximum value in relation to a given objective.

• Organizational metaphors
• Organizational culture
• Skills to Manage

• The future of leadership
• Confusing authority with leadership
• Exhibiting leadership
• Primitive leadership
• Quiz - how do you view leadership?
• Servant leadership
• The psychology of leadership
• Thought leadership
• The fundamental purpose of leadership

• The role of vision
• Are YOU a leader?
• Empowering leaders
• Leadership as evolution
• Management vs leadership
• Leadership style
• Organic leadership
• Challenging Orthodoxy - HBR on Leadership
• Your most important leadership characteristic
• See what others have said about LeadersDirect
• Leadership links