The Leadership Lie: Why Managing People Doesn’t Work
Leadership and management are not the same, and according to Chuck Blakeman, they don’t even belong in the same room.
In this episode of Lead Smarter, host David Kent sits down with serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, and leadership renegade Chuck Blakeman to challenge one of the most deeply held assumptions in business today: that managing people makes them more productive. Spoiler: It doesn’t.
Chuck shares powerful stories, surprising data, and real-life examples from companies around the world (including Google, GE, and a tomato paste empire) that are thriving without traditional managers, and thriving because of it.
You’ll learn:
Why management was built on the belief that people are stupid and lazy
How to replace managers with distributed decision-making
The difference between managing stuff and leading people
Why the most organized, efficient companies often have no hierarchy
The leadership principles that scale from 5 to 50,000+ people
📚 Chuck’s latest book: Sell Less, Earn More
📘 Also mentioned: Re-HUMAN-izing the Workplace by Giving Everybody Their Brain Back
In this episode of Lead Smarter, host David Kent sits down with serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, and leadership renegade Chuck Blakeman to challenge one of the most deeply held assumptions in business today: that managing people makes them more productive. Spoiler: It doesn’t.
Chuck shares powerful stories, surprising data, and real-life examples from companies around the world (including Google, GE, and a tomato paste empire) that are thriving without traditional managers, and thriving because of it.
You’ll learn:
Why management was built on the belief that people are stupid and lazy
How to replace managers with distributed decision-making
The difference between managing stuff and leading people
Why the most organized, efficient companies often have no hierarchy
The leadership principles that scale from 5 to 50,000+ people
📚 Chuck’s latest book: Sell Less, Earn More
📘 Also mentioned: Re-HUMAN-izing the Workplace by Giving Everybody Their Brain Back
