One of the pleasures of blogging are the parallels I find between and among various bloggers’ themes. As I was prepping for my WSJ interview last Friday, I reviewed the posts on my Complexity Set page. I realized that Elizabeth’s review of the book Leadership Skills for Project and Programme Managers (here) provided a nice counterpart to my post on a Harvard Business Review article The Experience Trap (sorry subscribers only) — Set Goals for Behavior.
My post highlights the power of goals that don’t simply replicate planning and control targets. Rather, one should put the focus on behaviors that support project deliverables and outcomes. This differentiation is one of the key differences between managing and leading. Elizabeth’s post had a nice table from the book that outlined these differences really well, which I though was worth spiffing up and reformatting (below).

NOTE: Table manually copied and reformatted from Elizabeth’s post. Credit: Adapted from Franklin, M. and Tuttle, S. (2008) Leadership Skills for Project and Programme Managers, TSO: London, p. 9.
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