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Please read this article. Management Is (Still) Not Leadership by John P. Kotter |11:00 AM January9,2013 A few weeks ago, the BBC asked me to come in for a radio interview. They told me they wanted to talk about effective leadership — China had just elevated Xi Jinping to the role of Communist Party leader; General David Petraeus had stepped down from his post at the CIA a few days earlier; the BBC itself was wading through a leadership scandal of its own — but the conversation quickly veered, as these things often do, into a discussion about how individuals can keep large, complex, unwieldy organizations operating reliably and efficiently. That’s not leadership, I explained. That’s management — and the two are radically different. In more than four decades of studying businesses and consulting to organizations on how to implement new strategies, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people use the words “leadership” and “management” synonymously, and it drives me crazy every time. The interview reminded me once again that the confusion around these two terms is massive, and that misunderstanding gets in the way of any reasonable discussion about how to build a company, position it for success and win in the twenty-first century. The mistakes people make on the issue are threefold: Mistake #1: People use the terms “management” and “leadership” interchangeably. This shows that they don’t see the crucial difference between the two and the vital functions that each role plays. Mistake #2: People use the term “leadership” to refer to the people at the very top of hierarchies. They then call the people in the layers below them in the organization “management.” And then all the rest are workers, specialists, and individual contributors. This is also a mistake and very misleading.
Leadership and management must go hand in hand. They are not the same thing. But they are necessarily linked, and complementary. Any effort to separate the two is likely to cause more problems than it solves.
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Leadership and Management are infact two different sets of actions, but they go hand in hand to make you a better manager. A good manager is also a good leader.
Leadership entails how you drive your team, do you lead them from the front or you to need to keep pushing them from the back ? Personally a leader who leads by example is far better than one who keeps nagging you from the back.
Management entails how you manage your workforce and the work they need to do, which means asking questions like, am I really using the talent of my group of people effectively ? Example if you have a team member who is amazing at analytics and a team member who is not so great at analytics, but it good at extracting data, you need to make sure1) these teo work together to produce the best results and2) each of them have the relevant roles as per their skills, to ensure they shine and you are a happy manager.
On my opinion management deals with people mind and actions while ledership deals with people soul, emotions and feelings
top manager can assign a manager, but people anyhow select a leader among them because phsycologically they want to go after a leader. Thats why we must assign managers with leadership talent
Let me give you an example
if somethimg happens and a good leader working as a manager losees his job
and there is no option. Only availabe job is cleaning spesialist in some trade company-beleive me in two years in this company again he will become a manager
first being a leader he will lead all cleaners- becomes chief cleaner, than being a leader will become very useful for entire office and becomes administrative assistant, than supervisor and finally manager-leaders destiny is to gain more and more reports for doing more and more responsible task for the company to add more value
people are not blind and director as well-he assigns you because he knows this part of a company will come after you to gain him more value
if even you dont want it it will happen when you have leadership talent
why? You have all answers, you solve problems, you really care for company for people, you gain more trust and more authority, not because on the door of your room is written"manager" -there are thousands of managers-but because you are a leader.
Mistake #3: People often think of “leadership” in terms of personality characteristics, usually as something they call charisma. Since few people have great charisma, this leads logically to the conclusion that few people can provide leadership, which gets us into increasing trouble.
In fact, management is a set of well-known processes, like planning, budgeting, structuring jobs, staffing jobs, measuring performance and problem-solving, which help an organization to predictably do what it knows how to do well. Management helps you to produce products and services as you have promised, of consistent quality, on budget, day after day, week after week. In organizations of any size and complexity, this is an enormously difficult task. We constantly underestimate how complex this task really is, especially if we are not in senior management jobs. So, management is crucial — but it’s not leadership.
Leadership is entirely different. It is associated with taking an organization into the future, finding opportunities that are coming at it faster and faster and successfully exploiting those opportunities. Leadership is about vision, about people buying in, about empowerment and, most of all, about producing useful change. Leadership is not about attributes, it’s about behavior. And in an ever-faster-moving world, leadership is increasingly needed from more and more people, no matter where they are in a hierarchy. The notion that a few extraordinary people at the top can provide all the leadership needed today is ridiculous, and it’s a recipe for failure.
Some people still argue that we must replace management with leadership. This is obviously not so: they serve different, yet essential, functions. We need superb management. And we need more superb leadership. We need to be able to make our complex organizations reliable and efficient. We need them to jump into the future — the right future — at an accelerated pace, no matter the size of the changes required to make that happen.
There are very, very few organizations today that have sufficient leadership. Until we face this issue, understanding exactly what the problem is, we’re never going to solve it. Unless we recognize that we’re not talking about management when we speak of leadership, all we will try to do when we do need more leadership is work harder to manage. At a certain point, we end up with over-managed and under-led organizations, which are increasingly vulnerable in a fast-moving world.
Management is the art of getting things done in fulfilling companies objective, it can be thru any style of management autocratic/ persuasive or persuasive method. The whole idea is getting the task accomplished.
Manager follows order, follows rules & regulations and has got technical orientation towards goals.
Leader is lead by example where he has common ehics, values, purpose. People follow leader blindly on their mission they have immense faith on him. His approach is always practical, is always in reach with people for their help anytime.
A Leader counsels & guide the team, people follow his example and has got strategic approach towards goal.
A leader can be a manager and a manager need not be a leader always..
A manager focuses on the administration of the existing system and not anyone can be called a manager... on the contrary anyone can be a leader. Unlike the manager, a leadear focuses on motivating people to work for the sytem itself. When a leader do the right things... the manager will be able to do the things right.
Management and leadership are two ways, One going to the east and second to the west but at a point they become parallel but not become a single thing.
It is often mix up these both terms are use in a very broad way. management and the leadership both are the qualities, Good managemrnt skills can lead to a leader, and a good leader keeps those skills as a blessing.
Answering to your question is that he manager’s job is to plan, organize and coordinate. The leader’s job is to inspire and motivate, Because manager and leader are two different things when a professional puts manager and leader skills in him/her he is a good enterprise
While Management is a science and practice, Leadership is an art and a gift... Many people could be managers yet few could be leaders..
Do you know -
how to manage your children? - managing their troubles, disciplines, needs, anger, fights etc
how to lead your children? towards peacefulness, education, career, growth etc;
got the difference?
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