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> Are "high-ranking managers" not classed as "leaders"?

You can be a leader without being a manager, and you can be a manager without being a leader.

> Ideally I'd want the team to be feeling guilty, because I'd argue it's the team as a whole that should have been responsible.

I don't agree at all, and this is probably where we think differently about leadership, and why you don't like the article's conclusions.

When the team fails, it's the leader's fault. When the team succeeds, the leader lets the team have the praise and the glory.

Listen to Jocko Willink's talks about extreme ownership on Youtube. He talks about this.