I often need as an executive coach to enter into conversations on all of the important differences between leadership and management. In an organization, knowing the distinctions and valuing both roles is critical. However, no one gets a pass based on a personality assessment of being the leader of their own life. This Forbes post is excellent:
“I would like to start this post with a challenge to one of our most basic assumptions. We are accustomed to thinking ourselves as individuals: as self-contained, uniform entities. I’m an individual with my own thoughts, feelings, needs, values, skills, knowledge, and talents.”