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Leadership's Strategic Edge

Dr. Al Coke

There are huge voids of leadership in North American businesses. Managers are doing activities but they are not leading. I see it frequently in my consulting practice. You experience it every day at your work place. The result is a significant loss of a desirable strategic edge to you over your industry.

To move an organization toward its full potential a manager needs two core competencies. They are managership and leadership. The skill sets are cousins and not interchangeable. The first, managership, is concerned with organization care while the second, leadership, is concerned with people care.

We are fair at managership because management sciences are sophisticated, documented, and validated. Business schools adequately teach these skills. Missing from our tool kit is a full understanding, appreciation, and application of leadership as a strategic tool.

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