Leadership and Management

What is Leadership?

We can’t say all the successful people are leaders. You can’t be a leader because you are rich and popular. The person who becomes popular overnight can’t be a leader. All politicians can’t be a leader because they are selected by peoples vote. All the entrepreneurs can’t be leaders since they are money makers. Leaders are more than that.

Leaders are the people who inspire, motivate and influence others or a group of people to engage for a purpose or vision that would define them. The leaders are the people thing differently from above others and change things. They are ready to take challenges and take the risk to meet their purpose even when others demotivate them.

“I learned the courage is not an absence of fear, but the triumph over it, the brave man is not who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”. Quotes of Nelson Mandela

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out”. Quotes of Steve Jobs

“Great leaders don’t sacrifice the people to save the numbers they sacrifice the numbers to save the people”. Quotes of Simen Sinek

“If your action inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more you are a leader”. (Sinek, 2009)

What is Management?

Management is about the administration or controlling or directing an organization or set of people to achieve one or more objectives. It’s not about inspiring people it’s about getting things done in an organized and efficient manner.

Managerial concerns are Efficiency - greater output with less input and Effectiveness - accomplishing organizational goals.

The primary function of management is planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. (Fayal, 1916)

The Relationship and Difference between Management and Leadership.

Leadership is an important part of management which plays an important role in managerial operations. Leadership involves influence, teamwork and achieving the goal effectively the same as the management (Northhouse, 2016)

Differences.

• Leadership is about directing by creating a vision and communicating and inspiring the employees to achieve it, while the managers create the structure, gives authority and responsibility to achieve the goals.
• Leaders get their authority from his followers; Manager gets his authority by his higher position in the organization.
• Leaders follow their instinct, while the managers follow the rules and regulation of the organization.
• Leaders think by heart, for the manager is about the mind.
• Leadership is about people aspects, management is about the technical aspects.
• Leadership sees the ability of their followers, but the management sees their profile and past performance.
• Communicating with leaders are easy, but with managers is complicated.
• Leadership is proactive and management is reactive.

“All managers are not effective leaders”

References

Fayal, H., 1916. General and industrial management. London: Pitman.

Northhouse, P. G., 2016. Leadership Theory and Practice. 7th ed. s.l.:SAGE Publication.

Sinek, S., 2009. Start with Why: How great leaders inspire everyone to take action. s.l.:s.n.

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