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Redefining What It Means to Be a Quality Leader

Are you a manager or a leader?

Eric Stoop
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 12:02
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What makes someone a quality leader and not just a manager? According to experts at Harvard Business School, the difference between leading vs. managing comes down to a few key strategies.

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Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn defines leadership as “the creation of positive, nonincremental change, including the creation of a vision to guide that change; a strategy; the empowerment of people to make the vision happen despite obstacles; and the creation of a coalition of energy and momentum that can move that change forward.”

In other words, leadership requires more than just managing people and getting them to hit a set of targets. It means being able to inspire people to drive change on a larger level, helping overcome challenges along the way.

Here we look at what it means to be a quality leader, including three critical steps to becoming a leader who people are excited to follow.

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