Leadership and Management in Business
This blog entry was posted on May 16, 2008.
Businesses need both managers and leaders. Businesses need leaders to chart the direction and set organizational goals. Managers get things done methodically and effectively. I use this as part of my business consulting and executive coaching.
You feel leadership. You do management. Leaders are the visionary influencers. They set the direction and are concerned with the outcomes, not necessarily the process. Managers create plans with specific goals, organize teams and then control and monitor the progress of the plan.
Leadership without management is like a sailboat without the sail. Management without leadership is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Leadership
Leadership is concerned with the outcomes, not necessarily the process used to achieve it. A leader has to be creative and willing to introduce innovation. Innovation is the essence of leadership. Leadership is the catalyst of motivation and inspiration in others.
Leaders have vision; they align people towards that vision and then inspire the people to march towards that vision. Leaders affect human behavior to accomplish the mission. They are forward thinking and solution oriented. They set organizational strategies and goals.
Management
A manager makes sure the job gets done. They organize and deploy resources to meet business strategies and goals. They have the learned skills, the operational knowledge and the ability to translate the vision into action. They are known to be organized, methodical, efficient and effective.
Management is the ability of getting people to act toward accomplishing a goal. It is the ability to deliver a process as close to perfection as possible.
In the end, a successful organization requires both leaders and managers to be successful. It is leadership combined with management that creates success.
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