Leadership is a process or
action of leading individuals or a group of people, community or an
organization to achieve specific goals. It is also the state of being a leader
and guide group of people or organizations. Leadership is of various type i.e.
political leadership, community leadership and religious leadership.
Leader
Leader is a person who supports and guides other
people to achieve tasks. Leader thinks and creates plans, give direction and
motivate and influence people. They think creatively and help people to
do right things. Leaders create groups and teams and inspire them.
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"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."-John C. Maxwell |
Leadership vs.
Management
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."-Peter Drucker |
Management
Management is to do any activity or task effectively and efficiently. Efficiency refers to getting most output from the least amount of
input, and Effectiveness is described as “doing the right things” or doing
things which help the organization to achieve its goals.
Manager is an organizational member that tells and guide people “What
to do and How to do”. A manager is someone who coordinates and oversees the
work and activities of other people so that goals of organization can be
achieved and accomplished. Managers are usually considered
as administrators.
It seems that managers and leaders are the same. It is true to some
extent but there are few differences if we think deeper.
Manager plans and thinks about achieving objectives
and targets. Manager focuses on budget, situation, system and structure of
organization. He relies on orders and control. He focuses on what to
do and when to do.
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“When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.” - Stan Slap |
Managers focus on the achievements of goals and
objectives of an organization or company. Managers are task
oriented and focus on results. They create teams and heir individual
which are determined and committed to work and success.
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"Catch someone doing something right."-Kenneth Blanchard |
They have formal authority and they expect that
employees and individuals obey his rules and orders.
Managers take credits. They are purely problem
solver.
Leadership
Leadership is about leading individuals
and group of people.
Leaders bring innovation in people. They influence
and inspire people. They don’t focus on what to do and how to do; they focus
and tell people why to do, how to do. They have
long term vision. They have such leadership skills which enables people to
choose correct path willingly. They focus on team work and try to find root
cause of specific issue or problem.
Leader doesn’t focuses on orders and controlling
people. He doesn’t realize that he has authority. Leader is people
oriented. He focuses on achievement instead focusing on results.
He convinces people by influencing and motivating.
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"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work."
Leader doesn’t want his personal achievements, he
want achievements of people and make people heroes. In case of failure, leader
doesn’t blame his people and team. He takes responsibility on himself,
motivates and gives confidence so that people won’t give up.
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"If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight like a lion." |
Common things between
Leaders and Managers
Both leaders and managers focus on achievements of
specific goals and objectives. Leaders and managers are same in personalities
and styles. They both manage things. They create ideas and plan things and
explain vision to people. They motivate people and try to change thinking of
people positively. They try to work in according to organizational structure
and situation.
Conclusion
Management and Leadership are same to some extent. Some duties and
actions of leaders and managers are similar to each other. Looking deeper, we
realize that there are many differences between managers and leaders. In some
situations and organizational structure, acts of management are more important
than leadership.
The life and vision of manager is short than leader. Manager always
focuses on hiring individuals that are already committed and determined. Manager looks previous records of individuals to analyse their
determination and efforts.
Leader’s vision and thinking is broad. He also heir people and create
teams. He creates ideas. He doesn’t focuses on individual who are already
determined and hardworking. He focuses on influencing and motivating people and change thinking of people so that they get determined about
achieving goals.
Manager is conscious about choosing that team and individuals who work.
But leader is not conscious. He chooses any type of group and tries to convince
and help people to work and achieve goals. Work and tasks
of managers are limited to organization or company but leader usually works for people and society and also for organizations.
