The distinctions between managing and leading people impact your professional purpose. 

 

Here are five key distinctions between the two and how you can learn to make your role lean in favor of purpose.

What’s possible for you and your team? A landmark study shows that it depends on what you think is possible.

 

If mindsets really do affect and change us, maybe instead of being externally manipulated by subtle scientific priming, we can be more intentional with our thinking and do that reevaluation ourselves.

It is important for leaders to have functional expertise; that goes without saying. But it is no less important for them to know how to effectively deal with people. 

 

Emotional intelligence is what allows leaders to get everybody marching in lockstep, feeling they are part of a larger whole.

Many managers and leaders are dealing with wholesale sea change, not just little shifts in the level of the tide. Not minor waves of change, a process here and there, but overwhelming, multifaceted shifts. 

 

They need a fundamental reset, or a breather of major proportions. Human beings are tired, confused, angry, anxious — and something has to give.