Leader or just a rebel?

From HBR this morning a way to tell if your leading or rebelling?

There is a fine line between a rebel and a leader, though we tend to conflate the two. 

A rebel resists conformity. Sometimes the rebel's challenging voice helps an organization to discover a gap, push themselves to innovate, and ultimately to thrive. So the challenging, dissenting voice can, at times, be tied to leadership.


But to be effective, we need to understand key distinctions:

• To rebel is to push against something. To lead is to advocate for an idea.
• To rebel is to say "heck no." To lead is to say "we will."
• To rebel is to deny the authority of others. To lead is to invoke your own authority. 

For the full article go here http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/01/are_you_a_rebel_or_a_leader.html