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by IncreasePosts 272 days ago
1 thing that leaders do that managers never do: Call themselves leaders
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Rather a manager mentality in a leadership role calls themselves a leader. True leaders rarely have to assert this notion, it is naturally assumed and respected by those around them. The world is awash with people ill-suited to "leading" people leading people. We are all suffering the overburdening of society with the "educated".
“Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king.” --Tywin Lannister
Actually based on the characterisation here, that's one thing that managers do that leaders don't