2006-12-28 20:23:07 · 6 answers · asked by Tristan 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
driving means you're behind them with a whip.
leading means they choose to follow you.
2006-12-28 20:25:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you intentionally subject them to negative reactions in order to subdue them then you are driving them. If you step away and let life happen, good, bad or indifferent, but you always make yourself available to them then its leading. When and if they decide to follow you.
Go to an AA meeting and watch how the "old-timers" laugh at new-comers and berate them right there at the meeting in order to try to subdue them emotionally so they will "want" to get on the wagon. That's the most inhumane thing I've experienced personally in terms of psychologically "driving" people. Take a weak drunk and beat the hell out of him until he sees that you have the best means available. Churches many times are bad about this too. But actually it is a culturally accepted thing as long as you claim to be trying to help them.
2006-12-29 04:26:58 · answer #2 · answered by your_name_here 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leading is motivating people to voluntarily follow through positive motivation of some kind. Driving implies that nobody follows, but rather is pulled, or motivated by negative reinforcement such as intimidation.
2006-12-29 04:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by ME 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the first guy ---
Leading is a good thing.
Driving is aggressive, ruthless etc. Carries the meaning of force.
But "driving people" usually just means having them ride in your car.
2006-12-29 04:30:58 · answer #4 · answered by evaniax 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One shows the way while the other motivates.
2006-12-29 04:28:54 · answer #5 · answered by ~Another Day~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LEADING - motivation by example
DRIVING - motivation by intimidation
2006-12-29 05:10:43 · answer #6 · answered by bro86219 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋