{"id":700,"date":"2008-01-22T19:44:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T00:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/22\/managers-and-leaders"},"modified":"2008-01-22T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T00:44:13","slug":"managers-and-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/22\/managers-and-leaders","title":{"rendered":"Managers and Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a bit of procrastinating while packing, I found some notes from an old <a href=\"http:\/\/modm.wordpress.com\/\">MODM<\/a> talk that I thought I&#8217;d transcribe. Its the differences between a manager or a leader&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manager&#8230; responds to change, is reactive. Leader&#8230; creates and shapes change, is proactive<\/li>\n<li>Manager&#8230; future-taker, path-taker. Leader&#8230; future-maker, path-maker<\/li>\n<li>Manager&#8230; cautious about risk. Leader&#8230; careful about risk<\/li>\n<li>Manager&#8230; does the thing right. Leader&#8230; does the right thing<\/li>\n<li>Manager&#8230; guided by fate. Leader&#8230; guided by destiny<\/li>\n<li>Manager&#8230; controls actions and events. Leader&#8230; facilitates actions and events<\/li>\n<li>Manager&#8230; works in the organisation. Leader&#8230; works on the organisation<\/li>\n<li>Manager&#8230; prophet: informed and motivated by understanding and predicting trends; asking <i>why<\/i>? Leader&#8230; visionary: informed and motivated by imagining the future and the future self; asking <i>why not<\/i>?<\/li>\n<li>Manager&#8230; probable-futurist: asks what will the future be like? Leader&#8230; preferred-futurist: asks what should\/could the future be like<\/li>\n<li>Manager&#8230; problem-centered strategist. Leader&#8230; mission-directed strategist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above is worth mulling over. What do you want 2008 to be for you?<\/p>\n<p>I for one, don&#8217;t normally spend time writing goals for the year. Today morning, I found myself doing just that. Now, its time to get off my butt, and get things done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a bit of procrastinating while packing, I found some notes from an old MODM talk that I thought I&#8217;d transcribe. Its the differences between a manager or a leader&#8230; Manager&#8230; responds to change, is reactive. Leader&#8230; creates and shapes change, is proactive Manager&#8230; future-taker, path-taker. Leader&#8230; future-maker, path-maker Manager&#8230; cautious about risk. Leader&#8230; careful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-bi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}