Management is about doing what can be seen and executing it well;

Leadership is about envisioning what can’t be seen that spontaneously enrolls people to make it happen.

- Ivan Rosenberg, CEO, Frontier Associates

The article discusses moving from transactional to transformational and shifting from “all about me” to “all about us” (still not global minded and us vs. them) to “all about we”.

Time will tell is Obama can lead us to “all about we.”  I still feel in listening to the begging for $$ from Congress by the banks and auto workers, we are still in the “all about us” mentality.  And…the fact that Merrill Lynch’s CEO, Thain has asked for a $10 million bonus smacks of “all about me.”

I am all for CEOs getting paid and I do believe they should be paid a little extra for a job well done.  While Thaine helped ML out of a big pickle, it seems a bit over the top to ask for this type of money when his company was just rescued.

Read the full post from Fast Company by Mark Goulston