Robert Safuto

There is a big difference between leadership and management in the business context and I think it's important to point out what separates these two very important disciplines. When I first exited the military I was a bit idealistic in thinking that leadership was a valued discipline in business. What I found was that more often the focus in both large and small businesses was on management. Over the years since then I have consistently experienced management as a more valued and more applied discipline than leadership. I think that leadership skills are not valued as much as management skills because of confusion about the definitions of management and leadership.

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The current recession is turning the employment relationship in the corporate world upside down. More people are self-employed than ever before. So even as companies seek to downsize they find they are losing the initiative in their relationship with employees as more people find happiness and success outside the corporate business world.

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