The Rules Of Management: A Definitive Code for Managerial Success, Expanded Edition

Chapter 71. Don’t Stagnate

So are you a leader or a manager? Not really a fair question when we’ve spent the whole book so far making sure you are an effective, efficient, and startlingly good manager. But the really good managers are also leaders—they inspire and motivate, encourage and enthuse. They draw people to them like moths to a flame. They are charismatic and dynamic and stylish. They are leaders indeed.

But they are also good managers. Too much management and you stagnate. You have to revel in change, seek new challenges, stay on your toes, find new ways of doing things, motivate your team in new and exciting ways, introduce new technology and ideas, start trends, jump fences, light fires. You can’t be seen to stand still or moss will ...