[voakbasda]

Not everyone can be effective at both. I learned that I can be a great leader, but I do not have the patience required to manage people. I have had managers that were terrible leaders. Definitely different skills, and you need both to climb the ladder into the C-suite.

[trescenzi]

You definitively don’t need either to make it to C-suite. To get there you need political skills. To be effective there you absolutely need both though.