Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Leadership v. Management

Leadership is providing a vision for attaining the organization’s goals and showing people the path for realizing the vision.  Management is a career.  It is wrongly assumed that someone able to perform well at work will be able to manage people doing the same job.  A manager should plan, control, and direct an organization’s resources.  The directing function of a manager involves leading and motivating. 

Communication is a key to leadership.  This is the way direction is given.  Leadership deals with people and may handle nonbehavioral functions that don’t directly affect people.  Both are effective in an organization.  However, management concerns getting goals accomplished while leadership concerns moving people toward the vision of accomplishi9ng the goals.  Successful leadership is what helps an organization manage better.

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