Norman Brown blog post

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Is this how to deal with negative people?

 “The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management” gives tips for leadership styles.  All leadership styles can become part of the leader's repertoire.  Leadership styles should be adapted to the demands of the situation, the requirements of the people involved and the challenges facing the organization. Leadership is less about your needs, and more about the needs of the people and the organization you are leading. Leadership styles are not something to be tried on like so many suits, to see which fits. Rather, they should be adapted to the particular demands of the situation, the particular requirements of the people involved and the particular challenges facing the organization. Leadership and management must go hand in hand. They are not the same thing. But they are necessarily linked, and complementary. Any effort to separate the two is likely to cause more problems than it solves.  Leadership and management must go hand in hand.  Workers need their managers not just to assign tasks but to define purpose. Managers must organize workers, not just to maximize efficiency, but to nurture skills, develop talent and inspire results.  Still, much ink has been spent delineating the differences. The manager’s job is to plan, organize and coordinate. The leader’s job is to inspire and motivate.