{"id":314,"date":"2025-10-06T07:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:02:33","slug":"seth-godin-leadership-vs-management-what-it-means-to-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Seth Godin \u2013 Leadership vs. Management &#8211; What it means to make a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qzoIAJYPQwo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The world-renowned marketing and leadership author Seth Godin talks about the difference between leadership and management, the confusion surrounding them, and why the world needs more leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Key Points:<br \/>\n\u2022 Management works well in terms of increasing economic efficiency and productivity. But, in the face of rapid change, the world needs leadership to get through this stage of unprecedented transformation.<br \/>\n\u2022 You should strive for excellence. Producing something truly great is the only way to build competitive advantage because sophisticated robots, artificial intelligence, and low-paid labor will handle the trivial job of assuring quality.<br \/>\n\u2022 You should focus on \u201csoft skills\u201d which are actually \u201creal skills\u201d. Those are the characteristics that differentiate a potential employee from a robot.<br \/>\n\u2022 Effective leadership can help companies navigate difficulties and failures, and eventually find successful processes to get forward.<\/p>\n<p>Questions to consider:<br \/>\n\u2022 How can you become more of a leader than a manager?<br \/>\n\u2022 How can you and your organization strive for excellence instead of just quality?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are you focusing on real skills?<br \/>\n\u2022 How can you make better processes in order to fail more efficiently?<\/p>\n<p>You can also find a written summary of the keynote at https:\/\/www.nbforum.com\/event-summaries\/<\/p>\n<p>#nbforum #nordicbusinessforum #nbf #leadership #management<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world-renowned marketing and leadership author Seth Godin talks about the difference between leadership and management, the confusion surrounding them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seth Godin \u2013 Leadership vs. Management - What it means to make a difference - Leadership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The world-renowned marketing and leadership author Seth Godin talks about the difference between leadership and management, the confusion surrounding them, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Leadership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-06T07:02:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ytb_thumb.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/\",\"name\":\"Leadership\",\"description\":\"All you need to know about leadership\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ytb_thumb.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ytb_thumb.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314\",\"name\":\"Seth Godin \\u2013 Leadership vs. Management - What it means to make a difference - Leadership\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-06T07:02:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-06T07:02:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=314#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Seth Godin \\u2013 Leadership vs. Management &#8211; 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