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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