pseudo leadership, and the Harm they do to Organisations, institutions,and society.

It is amazing how many times in management forums, seminars,conferences and even routine professional life the two words-MANAGEMENT and LEADERSHIP is interchanged frequently and is misrepresented.It is assumed that if a person is holding an office of power, authority, responsibility he/she would automatically be a leader. There is nothing wrong in such assumption except that in many cases this assumption is proved wrong in times to come and there is a substantial loss incurred by the organisation due to faulty leadership.

The questions arise how are management and leadership different from one another?How is it that some people may be great managers and poor leaders while many leaders can be great managers as well as mediocre managers but never poor managers?Is there a dearth of leaders in reality in our businesses, society, governance? and most importantly how to identify pseudo leaders and limit the harm they inflict on soceity and institutions.






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