MANNERSHIP®

Management and Leadership are quite different.

Management derives from the Latin ‘manus’ for hand and ‘agere’ to act implying ‘acting with the hands’. Like a farmer ploughing the land, organising the flow of water since winter, and seeking to transform nature.

Leadership has roots in ancient North European languages as someone who gives confidence to follow them. The Old English word lædan is more than a guide and implies ‘faith to follow’. Leadership is like a shepherd concerned for safety of the flock whilst seeking greener pastures and co-existing with nature in the wild.

To conceive a fresh relationship between a farmer and a shepherd, I merged Management and Leadership into a new word Mannership. I like that manners are implied as well as the sense of a journey in a ship.