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# Link: How and Why to Be a Leader (Not a Wannabe)
- URL: https://www.trxl.co/2013-8-7-how-and-why-to-be-a-leader-not-a-wannabe/
- Published: 2013-08-07T20:54:43.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-25T00:26:10.000Z
- Author: Evan Troxel
- Tags: Thoughts, #sqs, #Import-blog1, #evantroxel-me-com

[Umair Haque](http://twitter.com/umairh) (Twitter link) at the Harvard Business Review blog:

> Wannabes are something like metric-maximizing robots. Given a set of numbers they must "hit," they beaver away trying to hit them. The leader knows their job is very different: not merely to maximize existing metrics, which are often part of the problem (hi, GDP, shareholder value), but to reimagine them. The leader's job is, fundamentally, not merely to "hit a target" — but to redesign the playing field. It's architecture, not mere archery. If you're hitting a target, you're not a leader. You're just another performer, in an increasingly meaningless game.

This is the best writing I have read all year on the differences between what leadership and management truly are. I highly recommend [reading this short article](http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2013/07/how%5Fand%5Fwhy%5Fto%5Fbe%5Fa%5Fleader%5Fnot.html).

> We need a new generation of leaders. And we need it now.

Enough said!

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