What is The Difference in Leadership and Authority?

by | Dec 6, 2021

Team Work!

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Most exceptional leaders in my experience empower and inspire others to succeed on behalf of the greater good. We follow them. They are true heart and soul leaders.

Authority

Leaders defined with a context of ‘authority’ typically give orders to an essential work group in organizations. I see this type I’d leadership style critical, especially in public health and safety.

I have always respected and worked well with this leadership style as a chief executive in corporations, and my own business. These highly effective managers are most critical to the the success in any business endeavor, especially information technology…

America’s national security and defense must have greate leaders in command of our public health and safety. A disciplined, highly trained workforce helps us sleep at night, hopefully…

Homeland security is at the top of my list! Local law enforcement and first responders rely on a excellent command structures to execute effectively, efficiently and with millisecond speed. Lives are at stake everyday 24/7…

in information technology, the essential workforce with a highly trained, disciplined and passionate workforce, is of highest importance in supporting the critical services of the public and private sectors…

These same leaders must lead too!

What is leadership?

A good place to start is workplace wellness. I will use this context to help me explain leadership…

In my long career experience, building businesses in the information technology industry, executive leadership starts in the workplace, with your community, and most importantly at home, and in schools. Your kids are at the center of leadership. Parents must lead. Teachers and mentors must lead. Everyone must lead with passion, heart and soul…

Peter Drucker has been at the center of my leadership style for decades. Read his book and find out my formula for leadership and success in building businesses…

Steve and Judy Sparks
Children and Families in Life After Trauma

About the author

Steve Sparks is a retired information technology sales and marketing executive with over 35 years of industry experience, including a Bachelors’ in Management from St. Mary’s College. His creative outlet is as a non-fiction author, writing about his roots as a post-WWII US Navy military child growing up in the 1950s-1960s.
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