To be a Leader: Leadership Beyond Management

To be a LEADER: Leadership Beyond Management examines the two notions leadership and management, their relationship and their value. If an organization is unable to make a distinction between these two skill sets, the organization is doomed to be without one, most likely leadership.

Lewan presents readers with a strong challenge to go beyond our traditional training, education, and management orientation and step up to leadership, a separate and critical skill set and commitment. Most want to be led not merely to be managed. Yet, unless we know the difference, it is more likely that followers will only do as they are told and will follow no one.

Dr. Lloyd S. Lewan is chairman of the board, Institute for Shipboard Education, an organization sponsoring the international program Semester at Sea. This program is academically affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh. He also serves as executive dean and in this capacity has lead thousands of university students, faculty, and staff around the world on an ocean liner.

For many years, he served as chairman of the board of Lewan & Associates, Inc., one of the largest office-technology companies serving Colorado and Wyoming and now a part of Global Imaging Systems, Inc., of Tampa, Florida.

Lewan earned his doctorate from Oklahoma State University and has held faculty rank in accounting. He is an active community leader, particularly with burn survivors and urban at-risk youth.

A former United States Marine Corps officer, Lewan is also the author of Women in the Workplace: A Man's Perspective. He is nationally recognized as a keynote speaker on leadership, workplace, gender, diversity,and international issues.