Managers & Leaders | Paulo Morgado in Jornal de Leiria

PAULO MORGADO IN JORNAL DE LEIRIA: “PORTUGAL HAS TOO MANY MANAGERS AND VERY FEW LEADERS.” (01-12-2011)

In this article for Jornal de Leiria, Paulo Morgado claims that there are too many managers and very few leaders in Portugal. According to him, this is “because the former ones are enforced by decree while the latter ones aren’t.”

“A leader,” says he, “plays an unreplaceable role since only he or she can generate a sense of urgency. A leader is also able to bring out the best in his or her collaborators, as people do by example.” And last but not least, he concludes by saying that, “leadership can’t be inherited, and so it is not always possible for someone with good technical knowledge to become a leader.”

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