Viewing Management and Leadership in 3D

To survive and prosper in the shift age, it’s important to have a clear understanding of inspirational leadership and managing by process discipline.  Perhaps you remember the original  3d glasses—the ones with red and blue lenses?  If you looked through the left lens you’d see the movie surrounded by red squiggly lines.  The right lens produced blue lines around the same image.  But when you looked through both lenses, the movie seemed to jump off the screen at you.   This metaphor helps explain the merit of viewing the same image through separate lenses and considering management and leadership one at a time.

Management in the shift-age demands process-discipline.

Process-disciplined management deals with planning, getting results, and continuous improvement.  Positions, whose activities are defined by task processes, are orchestrated by an operating plan to sell, build, or serve at a profit.  This hard side of business includes; strategy, plans, performance targets, measurement, analysis, and the application of appropriate consequence.

Leadership in the shift-age is everybody’s business

Inspirational leadership focuses on employee motivation, creativity, will to win, and the desire to belong.  Business pressures often cause determined managers to forget that real people live behind every position.  Employee attitudes, hopes, and fears regulate corporate energy.  There is no neutral ground—each employee is either generating or dissipating energy. The CEO’s behavior is a determining factor. People have been conditioned since chilhood (byparents) to emulate the disposition of people in power.  Morale (high or low) is influenced by the top.