#10: Leaders vs Managers

One of the most disputed topics in business

Hey friends,

In this edition, I talk about the following:

• the difference between leaders and managers

• why you shouldn’t think about business as a zero-sum game

• 3 tweets I liked

• a thread on leadership lessons from “Arnold”

• my analog timer

1/ Leaders vs Managers

As I want to migrate almost completely to leadership and project management topics, I will do one deep-”ish” dive into one of these every week.

And I’ll start with one of the hottest discussions online and offline: the difference between a project manager and a leader.

Somehow, people came to the conclusion that project managers are bad and leaders are good. I read a lot of tweets doing this comparison: ” Managers do this, while leaders do that”.

And it’s so wrong, it hurts to see.

Actually, the roles are so intertwined that it’s hard to tell them apart sometimes.

In theory, a leader is someone who has a vision, or an idea, and a manager is someone who implements that idea either through a project or through a continuous operation.

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