Leadership & Management

Leadership and Management are often used interchangeably yet they describe two different components. Maccoby defines leadership as a relationship between the leader and the led and management as a function. The leader uses passion and emotion whereas a manager is more formal and rational method. Managers are quite often experiencedin their field and have worked up their way within the company; and a leader may be a new arrival to a company with fresh ideas.Often companies do not distinguish between the two positions and as a result may place a manager into a leadership role.
Some characteristics of the leader and manager are listed below:
Managers                                                                  Leaders

• Administer                                                     | Innovate
• Ask how and when                                        | Ask what and why
• Focus on systems                                          | Focus on people
• Do things right                                               | Do the right things
• Maintain                                                        | Develop
• Short-term perspective                                  | Longer-term perspective
• Imitate                                                          | Originate
• Are a copy                                                   | Are original

Leadership traits:

• Physical qualities of health,vitality and endurance.
• Personal attributes of personal magnetism, cooperativeness, enthusiasm, ability to inspire, persuasiveness, forcefulness and tact.
• Character attributes of integrity, humanism, self-discipline, stability and industry
• Intellectual qualities of mental capability, ability to teach others, and a scientific approach to problems.