Management vs. Leadership: What’s the Real Difference? | Simon Sinek

The problem is, is no one wakes up in the morning and wants to be managed. Totally. Yeah. People wake up in the morning and they want to be led. Yeah. And the reality is you can't manage people. You can manage a process, you can manage a project, you can manage a schedule, but you lead people. It is a human function. And the best leaders that I know, first of all, like I said, usually we treat management as a position or a rank in a, in a, in an organization. But leadership is a responsibility. And it's the awesome responsibility to see those around us rise. Yeah. And you are right, because leadership is a skill. Number one is we have to learn it. Most of us do the jobs that we're good at, and we probably had some sort of training along the way. We may have gone to school for engineering or being a lawyer or whatever it is, or if we didn't, the company will give us on the job training. And they have. Most companies have pretty sophisticated training programs, especially for junior people. Why? Because they want us to be good at the job. That's why. They look at our grades and how we did at school or how we're doing in the training program. And if you are good at your job, you will get promoted and you'll eventually get promoted into a position where you no longer do the job that you were trained to do. You now have to do a new job called leadership. And we often get little to no training on how to do that job. It's a skill and the skill must be studied sometimes. And I, and I expect that the company offers formal training as leaders make their way up the ranks. But also we have to take responsibility. And all the best leaders I've ever met study it. They read books, they read articles, they watch talks, and they have conversations about it constantly. They are fascinated by it because it's the thing they're trying to learn. And they never ever think of themselves as experts. They always think of themselves as students.