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Terry White, South Africa
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Management versus Leadership
Warren Bennis, the leadership guru has differentiated leadership from management with two simple acronyms:
1. The management acronym POEM means: ‘Plan, Organise, Execute and Monitor and Measure’. This is quite different from
2. The leadership acronym MAST, which means: ‘Meaning, Attention, Self and Trust’:
- MANAGEMENT OF MEANING - what does this mean for us / our company?
- MANAGEMENT OF ATTENTION - if this is important, then we’d better focus on the following activities, and importantly STOP these other activities).
- MANAGEMENT OF SELF is fairly obvious although I’ve seen many leaders transgress this simple principle by contravening their own espoused principles.
- MANAGEMENT OF TRUST is another key leadership element: True leadership will require a special brand of honesty if trust is to be built – this honesty tempers hype with business sense, and filters everything through the organisation’s strategic intent.
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Barbara, USA
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Bennis Updated Factors of Leadership
More recently Bennis mentions 4 somewhat different or updated factors that are essential for leaders in an environment o...
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Barbara, USA
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Background Bennis
To appreciate the leadership thinking of Bennis well, you should know that he grew up during WWII, at the time when icon...
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Stan Heard, USA
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Re-unite Management and Leadership
It seems that Leadership has been successfully removed from the work of Management in most everyone's mind. Management w...
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David Arnold, USA
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Natures of Managers and Leaders
Maybe a more fundamental viewpoint of management versus leadership perspectives lies within their fundamental natures (w...
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Sunil Saraf, India
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Leadership & Management
Agreeing with others, it is opined that Leadership is the Soul of Management. This maxim is justified since the whole co...
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Nkosinathi Zvimba
CxO / Board, United Kingdom
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Leadership-Vision versus Management-Control
Leadership is setting a new direction or vision for a group that follows the leader`s vision.
A Leader is the spearhea...
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Ahmed N. Qeshta, Palestine, State of
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Difference Between Leader and Manager
The leader can be a manager but the manager can not be a leader.
Leadership is created with the human because leadershi...
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John Hannah
Consultant, United States
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Leadership vs. Management
I appreciate all that I learned from the various posts regarding this subject matter. However there might be an addition...
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Javier Elenes
Business Consultant, Mexico
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Leaders PULL and Managers PUSH
Joan Ginebra in her remarkable book 'Liderazgo y La Acción, Mitos y Realidades (Spanish Edition' (Leadership and Action...
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Abdulrahaman Nashiru
Accountant, Nigeria
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Differences Between Leader and Manager
I think one of the differences between leader and manager is the way they are getting things done:
- The leader get thi...
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Brown, United States
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Leadership is about Vision and Management is about Best Practices
Vision is the essence of leadership (doing the right thing) and best practices are the essence of management (doing thin...
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Erdohegyi Gabor
Management Consultant, Hungary
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Leadership versus Management versus Boss - Same or Different Meaning?
Leadership and management are different ideas for their nature.
- "Leadership" is a feature based on special personal t...
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Emmanuel Reyme
Director, United States
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Differences Between Manager and Leader
@Abdulrahaman Nashiru:
Every post during this fascinating debate makes sense. In a simple way, leadership is the ingre...
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Shankar
Manager, India
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Can Managers become Leaders...
@Ahmed N. Qeshta : That is right. All managers cannot become leaders. There are very efficient managers who may not be i...
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Schubert Pereira, United States
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Leadership and Management
They are different. Leadership is characterized by 1. two-way trust and 2. genuine caring for the people they lead.
I ...
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Maureen Bridget Rabotin
Coach, France
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Evolving from a Manager to a Leader
Great insights, thanks to all. Good management has the potential to evolve into visionary leadership if the person seeki...
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Radha Raj
India
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A Manager without Leadership Qualities
How can a manager function effectively without leadership qualities? Without this, the manager will end up being just a ...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Management and Leadership
In my simple world, the manager puts the right piece of a puzzle in the right hole, while the leader makes the piece enj...
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Belmiro Isaac, South Africa
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Leadership versus Management
Leadership and management are totally different, management without leadership always has a tendency of imposing tasks t...
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E. von Ammon
Business Consultant, Switzerland
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Missing Characters in MAST
I agree to Isaac Belmiro, and leadership means Creativity (vision) as well as knowledge of Dramaturgy. There is a C and ...
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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A Leader Aligns his Energy towards the Spirit behind the Service
In my view, a person is leading if he is aligning his energy towards the spirit behind the service. If for example the d...
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Francisco Mucanheia
Strategy Consultant, Mozambique
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Leadership is about Following; Management is about Obeying
People obey a manager.
People follow a leader.
That means that a manager is there to command a formal authority, whi...
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Earle Taylor
Turnaround Manager, United States
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Leadership, Management and the Essential Difference
Managers need things, tools, techniques, technologies and organizations.
Leaders need people, form organizations, enga...
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Robin Pagano
Consultant, Brazil
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Leaders and Managers
Perfect! There are leaders and there are managers, but those ones who are both will make the difference.
Managers must ...
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Nii Torto
Accountant, Ghana
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Leaders and Managers
The leader seeks the questions while the manager seeks the answers. An individual can be a good manager and yet not be a...
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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The Leader versus the Manager
A leader touches the heart and soul, while keeping his gaze beyond the horizon, and though his presence is tangible his ...
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Emmanuel Mwirichia
Manager, Kenya
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Both Management & Leadership are Valuable and Needed for Success
We all value leadership as it inspires and motivates the followers to get the job done because they identify/resonate wi...
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Mohamed Mahgoub
Consultant, United Arab Emirates
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Management and Leadership
Obviously, there are areas of commonality between both, but there are also unique elements for each. I see leadership as...
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Aditya Sud
Student (MBA), India
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Management: Go! Leadership: Let's Go!
I believe the manager says "go"...
And a leader says "let's go".
This explains most of the major differences in a nuts...
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rio-roshi merit
Student (University), Nigeria
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Leadership versus Management
@John Hannah: I so much appreciate your light on this issue. To further contribute to your saying, I will say;
- Leader...
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Stephen Okeyo
Professor, Kenya
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Leadership versus Management hard to Differentiate and Dependent on Culture
Very good reflections on management and leadership expressing the points of divergence.
I wonder if some colleagues get...
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ISAAC E. OGBUKA PhD
Nigeria
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Management is about Coaching; Leadership is about Showing Direction
There is a very thin line between management and leadership. Management is about coaching, and constant coaching until e...
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kowe joseph olushola, United Kingdom
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Management and Leadership
- Leadership plays essential roles in the management and coordinating organizational elements to achieve the desired gro...
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tan liong choon
Management Consultant, Singapore
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Leadership versus Management : AMP Motivators
Very interest theories and concepts on management and leaders.
I would like to add the other half of the equation i.e....
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Aldo Bettini
Business Consultant, Panama
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Leaders are Unquestionable; Managers must Explain and Prove
- A leader tends to be unquestionable, he creates followers through his charisma to fulfill a vision he transmits.
- A ...
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Leodegardo M. Pruna
Professor, Philippines
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Management focuses on How; Leadership focuses on Why
- POEM (Bennis' management acronym) is about structure and focuses on the HOW.
- MAST (Bennis' leadership acronym) is a...
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Leena Bissoonauth
Student (University), Mauritius
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Management and Leadership According to Bennis
Management: POEM-acronym: Systematic approach for the success of management. Plan, organise, execute and measure / monit...
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NYAMEKA MAKITSHI
Manager, South Africa
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Managers must Learn how to Lead
Management needs the element of leadership, in its known definition. It is understood that not all managers are great le...
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Adedayo Rotimi Muyiwa
Student (University), Nigeria
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Management must be Leaders. Especially these Days.
@Nyameka Makitshi : I agree and strongly believe that any successful aspiring manager must imbibe and develop strong lea...
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Ulrich Schweiker
Director, Germany
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1. Go! 2. Let's Go! or: 3. I Will Go! Who Joins me?
@Aditya Sud: well, it may be there is another perspective: I will go! Who joins me?
Looking at the complex system of le...
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MICHAEL PETIT, PHD
Director, Australia
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Managers, Leaders and Hierarchy
Both managers and leaders exist in hierarchies:
- Managers are appointed to positions in the formal hierarchy of the or...
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Maria Montero
Coach, Venezuela
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Managers Deal with Things
I find very logical the approach Stephen Covey gives to this issue. He says managers deal with things, leaders deal with...
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Pedro Viagem
Manager, Angola
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Manager and a Leader
Thanks all for your very interesting posts. A leader is born with leadership skills; he does not need a lot of theoretic...
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Mohamed Mahgoub
Consultant, United Arab Emirates
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Leadership is Born + Made
@Pedro Viagem : Some world class leaders disagree with this position:
- Vince Lombardi states, "leaders aren't born- th...
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Ian Graham
Consultant, United Kingdom
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Management and Leadership
Terry White must be a good leader; why else have we all followed him in giving our opinions on this subject? A good lead...
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EMMANUEL
Student (University), Nigeria
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Management is about Self, Leadership is about Selflessness
I think leading people is based on selflessness while managing people is aimed on self.
A leader works to please his pe...
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Donasian Mbonea
HR Consultant, Tanzania
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Summary of Management versus Leadership
- Management is getting things done through other people, while leadership is showing the way.
- Managers have subordin...
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Priya Rathore
HR Consultant, India
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Manager also Needs to Be a Leader
A leader can become a manager. However to manage, you also need to be a good leader. According to the Five Sources (Base...
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ed tarus
Student (MBA), Kenya
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Management Versus Leadership
@Stan Heard : I agree that we should reunite leadership and management. Going by the healthy discussions from this forum...
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Emmanuel Reyme
Director, United States
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Differences Between a Leader, Manager, and Boss
@Erdohegyi Gabor : I really appreciate your insight to the issue.
Discussing leadership and management, let's take away...
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Juan Perez Eras, Mexico
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POEM and MAST Belong Together
@Aditya Sud: I don't find any difference between management and leadership. For POEM you need to apply MAST. Sometimes w...
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Robert Sowell, United States
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Management and Leadership
Great variety. I enjoy the diverse perspectives. My favorite definition of a leader is "someone with followers".
When ...
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kowe joseph olushola, United Kingdom
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Listening is a Key Skill for both Managers and Leaders
Managers should among other things encourage listening skills as a culture in the organizations. Leaders must be very go...
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gordon ullyett
Project Manager, New Zealand
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Management versus Leadership seen from the Follower
@Aditya Sud and @Ulrich Schweiker : Yes, and seen from the side of the follower / employee: you follow a manager because...
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Leodegardo M. Pruna
Professor, Philippines
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Can Leaders become Managers?
@Priya Rathore: a leader may have a hard time becoming a manager. One thing that a leader possesses is initiative and ri...
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Mohamed Mahgoub
Consultant, United Arab Emirates
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Reasons for Leaders to Emerge
@Editor : Thank you for the prompt. I completely agree with your notion of "circumstances" as an additional reason for l...
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TAPIWA JUMOH
Student (University), Zimbabwe
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What I Think is Leadership
I feel leadership as an art that fosters and stimulates the desire in some non-followers to redress and alter their atte...
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Satya Nistala
India
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Leaders Lead and Managers Merely Manage
- Leaders are born. Leader walks the talk. Leader knows and provides guidance. The freewill is respected. The follower i...
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Emmanuel Duru
Analyst, Nigeria
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Management and Leadership
Leadership is implementation of an inherent vision. It precedes management; which is a process of getting it done right,...
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Aspinall, United Kingdom
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Leadership & Management
I have researched extensively on theories and definitions of leadership and in truth found the following to be the summa...
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Juan Perez Eras, Mexico
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Leadership and Management
@Aspinall: I completely agree:
- a manager needs leadership to make people contribute to organization's goals.
- a lea...
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ed tarus
Student (MBA), Kenya
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What Leaders Do: They Lead and Learn
Going by the words of Jack Welch in his book 'Winning', leaders take risks and learn by setting examples. Leaders will n...
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Mona Al-Abbas
HR Consultant, Bahrain
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Balancing Management and Leadership Skills
Individuals in managerial positions need both management skills and leadership skills. Those skills may differ in contex...
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Daniel Mitchell, Singapore
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Good Leaders and Bad Leaders
@Mona Al-Abbas: I agree with you, and I think that some of what Henry Mintzberg says about leadership (it is a critical ...
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Mohamed Mahgoub
Consultant, United Arab Emirates
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Balancing Management & Leadership
Managers do need leadership in specific situations. Leaders, on the other hand, access their positions by demonstrating ...
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Adam mohammed Baba
Director, Ghana
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Leadership and Management: is There Difference?
Herman (2000) states that "people follow managers because they were supposed to, but they follow leaders because they wa...
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Ulrich Schweiker
Director, Germany
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Favoring Psychological Systems Dynamics
@Adam Mohammed Baba: leaders and followers obviously have something in common: they move towards the same goals or into ...
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Adam mohammed Baba
Director, Ghana
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Management and Leadership
@Ulrich Schweiker : it may seem that cleaver leaders "exploit" emotions of their followers. But what is wrong about that...
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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The Leader - the Follower
@Adam Mohammed Baba: Good leaders 'follow' followers to achieve goals!...
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Adam Mohammed Baba
Director, Ghana
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Management and Leadership / the Leader the Follower
@Arif ur Rehman : I think we are saying the same thing in different ways. Followers are very important in every organiza...
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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The Leader as a Follower
@Adam Mohammed Baba: Entirely true. A leader, worth his salt - both instinctively and professionally - recognizes the 'k...
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TAPIWA JUMOH
Student (University), Zimbabwe
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Leadership or Management the Two Have a Concordial Agreement
The two acts are inseperable or indespensible with each other. You can't be a good leader if you can't manage your influ...
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Mohamad Nasir Mahmood
Director, Malaysia
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Leadership versus Management according to Covey
Stephen R. Covey had succinctly summarized, as follows: "management is the efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;...
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Adam Mohammed Baba
Director, Ghana
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Management versus Leadership
Differences between managers and leaders
Most management scholars have alluded to the fact that managers and leaders re...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Re: Leadership and Management
@Ahmed N. Qeshta: sorry, but to say that a manager cannot be a leader is simply not true. It is not necessary for a mana...
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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The Leader <> Manager Balance
@Andrew Blaine : When the boundaries beyond the horizon are brought into the range of the ‘doables’ and the doables are ...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Leading versus Driving
@Arif ur Rehman: the process considered here can equally be achieved by driving workers as by leading them - the differe...
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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At the Helm - Through Motivation
@Andrew Blaine : A slave is compelled, an associate is motivated – and therein lies the charisma of leadership. And when...
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Karel V
CEO, South Africa
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Leadership and Management
A leadership is the person's ability to envision and think strategically in motivating his/her followers into implementi...
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Elijah Peters
Manager, United States
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Manage versus Lead
I think the very terms imply the diffence:
- When you're asked to MANAGE a process, team, etc., one tends to believe th...
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Priya Rathore
HR Consultant, India
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The Role of Managers is more Stable than the Role of Leaders
@Elijah Peters : Well said... But the most important task and characteristic of the leader is not just about sharing the...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Motivation as a Driving Force
@Arif ur Rehman: I agree with your commentary that a slave is driven while an associate is motivated.
The nature of mo...
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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Motivation versus Fear
@Andrew Blaine: Motivation is the inner urge – that intrinsically emerges from an ethical, committed and rewarding envir...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Fear and Motivation
@Arif ur Rehman: Hi Arif, at the risk of labouring a point, I feel it would be pertinent to point out that fear of failu...
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Vipul Nahar
India
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How Does Management and Leadership Differentiate
SOP for both management and leadership might differentiate on various points but for a moment, if we look at the commona...
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Leodegardo M. Pruna
Professor, Philippines
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Management and Leadership
Management is transactional while Leadership is transformational. Management deals with less communication, Leadership w...
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Andrew Parker
Director, Australia
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What is the Difference Between Management and Leadership and Which is the Most Important
In answer to your question, put simply you need to ask a different question. Your question should be, What is the most i...
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Nico Schuster
Manager, Germany
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Difference Between Management and Leadership
Quite some time ago I gave a presentation on the topic "Management V. Leadership" during my Master's studies - it provid...
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Gregory Johnson
Coach, United States
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Leading & Managing
Leadership of ANY type requires a cadre of Management applications. This debate has been long standing and I don't see L...
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Ray Chatwin
Lecturer, United Kingdom
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Leading and Managing
I suggest that management can be thought of as the 'hard' aspects such as organising, scheduling, setting targets, monit...
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Anthony Tsui
Professor, China
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Leader and Manager are Twins
In my view, leadership is about setting a standard (direction) while management is about keeping the standard for an agr...
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Reid
CEO, United Kingdom
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Leadership vs Management
The key difference between the two is to 'show' rather than 'tell' your direct reports what to do to improve the busines...
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Bosede Abiola Adetifa
Manager, Australia
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Management versus Leadership
I agree to re-merge leadership with management. The two are interwoven and separating them means a call for crisis. Trus...
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Rangu Suwas
CEO, India
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Management versus Leadership
Management is about optimally managing given resources, whereas Leadership is about creating resources, preparing resour...
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Mrs. Sayran Ghafuri
Coach, Iraq
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Management versus Leadership
I think that this talk is fictional and far from reality, and that the components of management remain as presented by t...
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Anonymous
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Leadership versus Management
@Gregory Johnson: Totally agree. A manager can execute following some given guidelines and is not necessarily a leader; ...
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Frederic A Parker
Consultant, United States
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Leadership versus Management
@Leodegardo M. Pruna:
I really like the comment that Leadership is WHY and Management is HOW. It fits well with my own ...
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India Centre for Global Excellence
Management Consultant, India
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Difference Between Leadership and Management
Leadership is a quality of influencing people so that the objectives are attained willingly and enthusiastically. It is ...
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Yochanan Kirschenboim
Director, Israel
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Leaders Address People in Their Four Dimensions
@Maria Montero: Your input is nice and important. But the main question is how do do that? Can you be more specific?...
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Sathya Devarakonda
Project Manager, India
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What is the Difference Between a Manager and a Leader
You can simply say - A Leader generally sets the direction in which the company should go forward, while the manager is ...
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Fosuaba
CEO, Ghana
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Leader versus Manager
In my opinion, it doesn't matter whether it is in a corporate setting or in another grouping, a Leader does the "right t...
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Victor Aguilan
Professor, Philippines
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Management and Leadership
Management is more about running an organisation whether for profit or nonprofit to ensure the delivery of services. It ...
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