Society has become more interconnected, leading to greater complexity and faster change. As such, thinkers have been increasingly split into two categories: leaders and managers. This distinction is not about skill or rank; rather, it was suggested that the role of a single thinker now requires two very distinct skill sets.
For academics, the distinction between management and leadership started to take hold around the late '70s, and it has been revisited often with mixed definitions. However, we can generally say that management is about dealing with complexity, while leadership is about dealing with change (reference: Kotter, J. P. (1990a). What leaders really do. Harvard Business Review, 68, 103-111; Kotter, J. P. (1990b). A force for change: How leadership differs from management. New York, NY: Free Press). This means that managers...