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Leadership

Leadership is the ability to influence employees to voluntarily pursue organizational goals.   Leadership is vision, enthusiasm, love, trust, passion and consistency.   Management is to pursue organizational goals efficiently and effectively by integrating the work of people through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizations resources.   Leadership and management are not the same.   They are not interchangeable.   Leadership is coping with change and management is coping with complexity   (Williams 444).
Paul Tagliabue has efficiently and effectively adopted both qualities of being a good manager and a good leader and will continue to guide the National Football League as the most successful pro sports league.
Paul Tagliabue was appointed the NFL's commissioner in 1989 succeeding Pete Rozelle.   Many believed Pete Rozelle to be the standard of measure when considering a new commissioner.   Pete Rozelle was believed to have had the vision and leadership to guide the NFL to a new level.   Paul took over the NFL just as it concluded a decade of two work stoppages and the embarrassing "scab football".   NFL owners began leaving their traditional franchise homes in search of newer stadiums and bigger pay markets.   Paul was viewed as being out of touch because of his reactive nature, management-by-crisis style, inability to form cohesion among team owners, and his faulty public relations skills (Greenfield).
Paul Tagliabue has been able to take his criticism in stride.   Not only has he effectively changed people's views about his leadership abilities, he has shown why he is such a productive manager.

If anyone has been Paul Tagliabue's worst critic it has been himself.   Paul at times has wondered if he was doing the right things, and if he was even the right man to be the NFL Commissioner.   His worst doubts came in the early 1990's when he struggled with the NFL Players Association on fruitless contract negotiations, and his efforts to forge a new...