Leadership and Management
In my mind leadership and management are two different entities that if combined together the we have a perfect leader. Now how can we differentiate between both of these words, let me give some examples of leadership and explain about it and then I will give some examples of management and give its examples as well. In my professional life as well as personal life I may have found lots of people who would like to call themselves as leaders and/or good managers however it may not be true.
1- Leadership: Leadership can be explained as follows.
• Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
• A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
In my mind these are some of the key elements that a leader should have, any one of the above missing in a leader can be just a person who is leading the crown but may not have a leadership qualities. In the same way leaders have to be patient and they should treat everyone equally and with the same vision and eye.
Now over here I would like to give an example of a bad leadership that I personally experience in my professional life. I was working for a company and it was a big multinational organization who always talked about equality and other fancy words like that however what I saw and observed is there leaders/managers are actually the one who are not following them and there was nothing that employees can do as if someone want to complain the manager will actually make his life harder and harder day by ...
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In my summary I want to say is that not everyone who is given an opportunity to become a leader or manager can be a good manager or leader it takes a lot of time effort and mind to make someone a successful leader/manager. To become a good manager or leader I think they have to be active listener and passive speaker but goal oriented no matter if it’s a long term project or short term project, they also have to be passionate and compassionate, they should have expertise and knowledge of their area of expertise.
In other words management is the delusion that you can change people, Leadership is deluding other people instead of deluding yourself, or in simple words Management is getting work done through other, and leadership is taking people where they haven’t been but need/want to go.
I have attached some pictures to differeciate between leaders and manager.
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