MT2 Growing Leadership Blog #31 – Define Your Culture – Equip and Empower Teams of Teams

The difference between managing a team and leading a team is found in how the Boss checks the organization. I was taught in the military that an organization only does well, what the boss checks. That means the leader must check everything with the leader's eyes, ears, and standards. But that is not Leadership; that is Management.

The role of the leader is to train and equip the members of the organization with the leader's eyes, ears, and standards so when the team is checking, it checks as the leader would check. Then the role of the leader is to empower the team to check as the leader would check, see as the leader would see, and listen as the leader would listen.

A leader running around trying to check everything is simply a manager trying to manage the organization. Instead, equip and empower teams of teams.