The document compares and contrasts leadership and management. It defines leadership as the ability to influence others without threat or violence, and to translate vision into reality. Management is defined as a process of achieving organizational goals efficiently through planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling work. The document notes that leaders advocate for change and new approaches, focus on people and the future, empower others, and do the right things, while managers advocate for stability, focus on processes and the present, control subordinates, and ensure things are done right. Overall, the document positions leadership as outwardly focused on people and change, while management is inwardly focused on processes and stability.
4. Leadership
- Is the ability of an individual or a
group of people to influence and
guide followers or members of an
organization, society or team.
- It is the capacity to translate vision
into reality (Warren G. Bennis)
- It is a social process in which one
individual influences the behaviour of
others without the use of threat or
violence (Buchannan and Huczynski)
5. Management
- Management can be defined
as a process of getting the work
or the task done that is required
for achieving the goals of an
organization in an efficient and
effective manner. Process
implies the functions of the
management. That is, planning,
organizing, staffing, directing
and controlling.
6. Leader
Vs
Manager
Leaders advocate change and new
approaches.
Managers advocate stability and status
quo.
Leaders are concerned with
understanding people’s belief and
gaining their commitment.
Managers carry out responsibilities,
exercise authority, and worry how
things get accomplished.
Abraham Zaleznik
Harvard Review in 1977
7. Leader
Vs
Manager “Managers do things right,
while leaders do the right
things.”
To survive in the twenty-first
century, we are going to need a
new generation of leaders –
leaders, not managers.
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus
