Manager – Leader – Entrepreneur
- 21.10.09
- Submitted by Udo Dierk
- Tags: Entrepreneur, Leader, Manager
- Submitted comments: 3
The basic assumption of our research is the existence of three archetypes of leadership : the Manger focusing on reducing complexity and optimizing through planning and organizing, the leader focusing on new directions and change, thus on people, and the entrepreneur focusing on business opportunities and innovation, thus on the market.
What do you think about these archetypes ? Are they in line with your observations and thinking ?
Our initial findings are that there are some individuals, who have a strength both in the Manager and Leader role, some are both strong Leaders and Entrepreneurs, but very rarely we found individuals who are strong as Manager and as Entrepreneur.
3 Comments ...
Aan Hunaifi
13.07.2010Very Interesting..inspiration..
scott saslow
05.10.2010I think this framework is very powerful. As show, the areas of overlap are equal- is that the case? If the manager- Entrepreneur area of overlap is actually small, should the graphic depict this?
Brings to mind so many important questions:
*What is the “right” mix for an organization- on group level, on individual level?
*How does one develop needed capabilities given role?
*How can roles be altered to leverage inherent strengths of individuals/ teams?
Great work- keep it up!
Udo Dierk
05.10.2010Dear Scott,
your idea with the overlap size in the grafic representing the size of the overlap between the archetypes is absolutely valuable. Indeed the largest overlap ist the entrepreneur-leader overlap, then comes manager-leader and very small, if at all, is the manager-entrepreneur.
Thanks for sharing this.