Apparently most of the world is divided into a few types of people. By far the largest group is those that need to be managed, then there are those that can manage others and in the smallest of minorities are those that can lead.

I know very few leaders and of the managers that I do know, few of them are good at it. Managers tend to be those that love to be negative and pessimistic, they spend all their focus on trying to do things right without paying any attention to whether or not they are doing the right thing. I have no time for managers, good or bad because the bad one’s make my life hell and the good ones cannot consider other options or other ways of doing things. They care not about being better than they already are, they only care about not becoming worse. Growth is not an option, the only option is not moving backwards, how negative!

Leading is about being the visionary, the one who won’t accept defeat and the one who knows how to be humble when he is defeated. Managers have no idea how to think beyond the boundaries of their experience. Managers may in time become CEO’s but they will never be entrepreneurs. They do not have the internal guiding light to separate themselves from what everyone else is doing and consequently, they become like every other business head void of any real concern or creativity.

I would rather be a leader of one than a manager of many.