Leadership Strengths At the Top Of the Class

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Larry Reynolds

Training Journal

July 6, 2009 (All day)

Larry Reynolds reports on a recent leadership masterclass by strengths-based development guru Marcus Buckingham

What’s the difference between leadership and management? Is leadership just a fashionable term for describing the kinds of things we want the managers in our organisation to do, or are the skills and behaviours of a leader utterly different to the skills and behaviours of a manager?

Marcus Buckingham, author of best selling business books First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover your Strengths, certainly takes the view that leaders and managers are completely different beasts. He spelled out the differences to an international audience of CEOs, L&D specialists and me at a masterclass in London last month.

Here’s what he had to say.