Leadership is the ability to influence employees to voluntarily pursue organizational goals. Leadership is vision, enthusiasm, love, trust, passion and consistency. Management is pursuing organizational goals efficiently and effectively by integrating the work of people through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the organization's resources. Leadership and management are not the same thing. They are not interchangeable. Leadership is dealing with change and management is dealing 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 lead the National Football League as the most successful professional sports league. Paul Tagliabue was appointed commissioner of the NFL in 1989 succeeding Pete Rozelle. Many believed that Pete Rozelle was the gold standard when considering a new commissioner. Pete Rozelle was believed to have had the vision and leadership to lead the NFL to a new level. Paul took over the NFL just as it was wrapping up a decade of two job stoppages and embarrassing “scab football.” NFL owners began leaving their traditional franchise homes in search of newer stadiums and larger ticket markets. Paul was considered out of touch due to his reactive nature, crisis management style, inability to form cohesion among team owners, and his poor public relations skills (Greenfield).
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