Management Does Not Prepare You for Leadership

Leadership is often seen as being a natural progression from management. In this article Criticaleye Co-founder and Managing Director, Charlie Wagstaff, asks if this belief can put senior executives on the wrong track.

Key points include:

• Being a leader requires a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the innate ability to communicate it.
• Leadership is an accumulation of what you observe about those you directly and indirectly influence.
• There is no place for individualism when leading a group. It’s about the team and collaboration. As a leader you get a lot more accomplished as a collective.
• All leaders must ensure complexity is understood, however a great leader must then make what is complex, simple.