The Promotion Gap: What No One Teaches You About Moving from Doer to Leader with Femi Corazon
We all start our careers as doers, or individual contributors. This means we make the widgets; we do the grunt work; we execute the strategy of management. Then, at one point, we may get very good at being a doer and are tapped for management. The issue is that there is no class for leadership. So many people that move from doer default into manager.
And as you may have seen in the memes online, there is a distinct difference between a manager and a leader. Here are some differences:
A manager is more concerned with:
Output over people
Stays focused on the task at hand and less on managing to…
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