A periodic reminder that leadership and management are two entirely different things. Calling a manager a "leader" is an appalling bit of doublespeak. You cannot appoint or assign a leader. You cannot be promoted through the ranks to leadership. You cannot learn leadership in a two-day class.
Leadership is about inspiration, not power or influence.
Leadership is something you are, not something you do. It is *really* not about telling people what to do, particularly in the guise of "helping." That's, at best, patronizing, and at worst, bullying. People in a position of power cannot "suggest" or "guide." Those so-called suggestions are _always_ directives, no matter how soft the glove you wrap around the iron fist. The power dynamic forces it. Inspiration is neither power nor authority.
People lead by providing an example of a better way of doing things. They demonstrate how one's life can be improved by being a better person and by treating others with trust, respect, and dignity. Leaders live by their ideals.
Honestly, I find even the term "leader" to be suspect. Leaders have followers. That's describing a cult, not a healthy relationship. It comes from command thinking. Instead, we need people who provide an example that people think is worth emulating. Some word other than “leader” would be better, I think.
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What support would they provide to teams? Are they just synthesising information to communicate a coherent context to teams?
I think you are confusing things.
Manager, that's a term relating to formal position. It's harmless in itself, and unavoidable. Every company has managers (for compliance's sake). The problematic term is "leader", which suggests the existence of followers, and comes from the realm of command-and-control. Leadership is something entirely different than "what leaders do": It is a social dynamic.
Management, on the other hand, is an way of organizing that's closely associated with command-and-control.
Confused? That's what more than 100 years of fruitless debate and stalling have done to us.
It would be far better to use practical theory, instead of guessing and opinionating all the time. The theory exists. It's called Org Physics: https://betacodex.org/white-papers/paper/org-physics-explained-11