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Are You a Leader?
摘要：隨著企業機構日益精減，業內人士也開始越來越多地關注管理者思維方式和領導者思維方式兩者之間的區別。這里，作者用“管理者思維方式”和“領導者思維方式”代表兩種不同的經營管理思維模式，兩者的區別在下文中有詳細的介紹。
As today's organizations become more and more lean, people in business are gaining a greater appreciation
for the differences between a manager's style of thinking and a leader's style of thinking.1
When people like Frederick Taylor first began to study management, he used a stopwatch to see how well people on a factory floor could improve their productivity. Back then, productivity in the American workforce was determined more by the performance on mechanical tasks than by the ability to process information or buildservice relationships, the way it is today.2 The purpose of a manager, in Taylor's day, was to be the one who knew the most about the work, and the one who took greater control to assure productivity and profit. Imagine being supervised by a manager with a stopwatch!
Now we live in an information age, and no one can "know everything" about a job the way the managers of yesteryear (supposedly) did. In an information age, managers have had to shift toward becoming the ones who create the nvironment that helps capable and knowledgeable people to succeed.3 What's more, the transition to a service economy4 has placed less of an emphasis on controlling others and more of an emphasis on the human skills of building strong relationships.
As a result, the role of management in the American workforce has shifted, and today's managers, more and more, have to develop some leadership skills. Leadership talent is even more essential to success on an executive level.
If you're curious about how much you think like a leader versus thinking like a manager, answer the following 15 T or F questions. Let yourself see that you are a leader or a manager!
