Management vs Leadership
Management vs leadership can confuse most of us. Do managers lead or
do leaders manage?

The answer is: management provides leadership, and leadership
contributes to management. In real life, some manager cannot lead and
some leaders cannot manage.


Management vs leadership myth can be better understood when we
outline that while leaders create new directions to influence team
members to change. Management focuses on implementing these
directions by managing the team members’ tasks and focusing on
planning, communications and organizational skills, to name a few.

To conclude, management do things as per the directions of the leaders
(who could have appointed them in the first place).

The following table outlines the high level differences of management vs
leadership.
Who Moved my cheese, Deal with Change
Avoid Work Stress
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Management skills
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Leaderships
Implement ideas without
challenging them.
Challenges ideas to innovate.
Characterized by being classic
imitations of leaders
Characterized by innovation
Reports routinely to work
Innovation mandates looking at
the horizon
How and When focused
What and Why focused

Day to Day focused

Strategic Directions focused
Control oriented
Inspiration oriented
Environment Looking in
Always looking our the boundaries
of the current environment
Organization rules and
regulations focused
People and innovation focused
Based on current facts and
constraints
Based on philosophy and ideology
   
Current situation focused
New situation focused
So, the management skills are bit different from the leadership skills
set. However, managers can be leaders and vice versa.

You can view in more details the management skills required to
achieve the best management practices. The management skills
required for the different type of managers also depends on the level
of management a manager belongs to. You should expect that the top
management such as the Chief executive Office of a company cannot
be compared from a technical skills set to the staff who is hands on
employee.

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