ABSTRACT
The current focus upon the importance of leadership has served to undermine the value and contribution of management. At its most polarised the debate about leadership and management has tended to see leadership as ‘good’ and management as ‘bad’. This plays to the argument that people do not want to be managed, seeing it as bureaucratic and controlling; but are happy to follow the heroic leader towards a vision (sometime a little hazy) of a better future.
