Management and Leadership
Management and Leadership
When it comes to understanding different aspects of management and leadership, people have different views regarding both of these terms. To some extent, people do relate management and leadership with each other but when it comes to proper understanding of their meaning they both differ greatly; Management is considered to be the quality of person or a business man to handle things according to plan while leadership is the quality of a person to lead a particular team or work.
Management is something which tells us the ways through which one can perform a given work on time and it always comes after leadership. Leadership is a quality within an individual who wants to achieve something and has set some goals. Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things (Peter F. Drucker, 1909). Management is a key to climb a wall and leadership tells you whether you’re climbing the right wall or not. So it is always important that during the study of Management and Leadership one cannot manage things right if he/she is not under the right leader.
The easiest way to understand the difference between the two is by defining both managers and leaders and how they perform their work. Managers are the people who make rules, design policies, make amendments, introduce new technologies, and implement them within an organization and prepare schedules for the supervisors and junior executives to follow. On the contrary, leaders are the ones who think and design strategies based on surveys and then give the final whistle to whether or not the program should be implemented and whether it would lead to profit generation (Covey, 1989).
In the quest for attaining fruitful outcomes for the business, managers hardly pay attention to what their leaders have to say with the excuse that the leaders should always be concerned with the profits only that the managers are making for them. They don’t see how these leaders conceive a project from different perspectives in the long run based on their research and experience. Therefore, by not taking this into consideration managers tend not to care much about things in the long run as far as they are making money for their organization in the shortrun. Leaders set successful directions and a path for us to achieve success. The main focus is on the effectiveness and survival amongst the fittest and not on the efforts we put on performing a particular task which depends solely on how leaders think and then come the managers who take it onwards to make it a success.
Management and leadership both should be effective. If the management is efficient and leadership is missing, the organization cannot succeed and without leadership, management cannot take place in running of a business successfully. Similarly, management is like getting into a mess and taking burden of all that is happening within the organization (Covey, 1989).
Different people who were into businesses as managers and then tried to switch as leaders faced serious problems as they had to leave their day-to-day work and regular pressure so as to drive their junior supervisors or executives to perform a special task with a high sense of motivation. Once these people overcome the problems they faced when shifting towards the leadership side, they doubled their profits as leaders and achieved their goals successfully. It sometimes happens on daily basis, as we tend to manage things more effectively by leading our lives quite calculated and schedule our day-to-day tasks. We lack leadership in our lives as we don't tend to decide what we want to do in life rather than following and managing things as they come upon us .We don't always need to make and follow hard and fast rules as managers usually portray rather we need inspirational direction from our elders for greater achievements.
The above mentioned life examples can easily prove that how in some ways management has crossed over the concepts of leadership and that is also what is shown in our character and our brought up when we move out into the real world and face the truth. Majority of the people have made perceptions that managing things in the right order and with perfection is more important than to do research and plan a strategy and be a leader in the market as less investment of ideas and money is involved in managing things as a lot is in shape and some rules are universal when it comes to management.
In addition, managers act as coaches for their juniors in making them professionals and achieving and managing things efficiently due to their expertise in managing things and end up making profits for the company.
Thus, these managers are like parents to these supervisors who look after and train them for their future.
Proper management is definitely important for an organization but equally important is a dominant leadership quality, which can inspire and bring more flow and a sense of competition into an entire organization and its people. Managers can be made through proper learning and expertise but leaders are born and not made as leadership is a built-in quality. Both cannot exist alone and should need each other’s help to achieve something big.
Management is something which tells us the ways through which one can perform a given work on time and it always comes after leadership. Leadership is a quality within an individual who wants to achieve something and has set some goals. Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things (Peter F. Drucker, 1909). Management is a key to climb a wall and leadership tells you whether you’re climbing the right wall or not. So it is always important that during the study of Management and Leadership one cannot manage things right if he/she is not under the right leader.
The easiest way to understand the difference between the two is by defining both managers and leaders and how they perform their work. Managers are the people who make rules, design policies, make amendments, introduce new technologies, and implement them within an organization and prepare schedules for the supervisors and junior executives to follow. On the contrary, leaders are the ones who think and design strategies based on surveys and then give the final whistle to whether or not the program should be implemented and whether it would lead to profit generation (Covey, 1989).
In the quest for attaining fruitful outcomes for the business, managers hardly pay attention to what their leaders have to say with the excuse that the leaders should always be concerned with the profits only that the managers are making for them. They don’t see how these leaders conceive a project from different perspectives in the long run based on their research and experience. Therefore, by not taking this into consideration managers tend not to care much about things in the long run as far as they are making money for their organization in the shortrun. Leaders set successful directions and a path for us to achieve success. The main focus is on the effectiveness and survival amongst the fittest and not on the efforts we put on performing a particular task which depends solely on how leaders think and then come the managers who take it onwards to make it a success.
Management and leadership both should be effective. If the management is efficient and leadership is missing, the organization cannot succeed and without leadership, management cannot take place in running of a business successfully. Similarly, management is like getting into a mess and taking burden of all that is happening within the organization (Covey, 1989).
Different people who were into businesses as managers and then tried to switch as leaders faced serious problems as they had to leave their day-to-day work and regular pressure so as to drive their junior supervisors or executives to perform a special task with a high sense of motivation. Once these people overcome the problems they faced when shifting towards the leadership side, they doubled their profits as leaders and achieved their goals successfully. It sometimes happens on daily basis, as we tend to manage things more effectively by leading our lives quite calculated and schedule our day-to-day tasks. We lack leadership in our lives as we don't tend to decide what we want to do in life rather than following and managing things as they come upon us .We don't always need to make and follow hard and fast rules as managers usually portray rather we need inspirational direction from our elders for greater achievements.
The above mentioned life examples can easily prove that how in some ways management has crossed over the concepts of leadership and that is also what is shown in our character and our brought up when we move out into the real world and face the truth. Majority of the people have made perceptions that managing things in the right order and with perfection is more important than to do research and plan a strategy and be a leader in the market as less investment of ideas and money is involved in managing things as a lot is in shape and some rules are universal when it comes to management.
In addition, managers act as coaches for their juniors in making them professionals and achieving and managing things efficiently due to their expertise in managing things and end up making profits for the company.
Thus, these managers are like parents to these supervisors who look after and train them for their future.
Proper management is definitely important for an organization but equally important is a dominant leadership quality, which can inspire and bring more flow and a sense of competition into an entire organization and its people. Managers can be made through proper learning and expertise but leaders are born and not made as leadership is a built-in quality. Both cannot exist alone and should need each other’s help to achieve something big.
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