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Combining leadership skill and management capability

Published: 14 July 2016

Chris Lake, head of professional development at the NHS Leadership Academy, explores why leadership and management are equally important – and why they can’t work in isolation.

Having spent twenty years in the business of studying leadership and developing leaders, there’s not a single definition of leadership, or even a set of definitions, that are nearly as coherent and unified as there are for management.

...Henri Fayol listed five functions of management and Henry Mintzberg developed these into the ten roles of the manager. Both lists describe more-or-less the same territory. However, in leadership studies there exists a plethora of definitions and theories, many of which bear little relation to each other.

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