Session-8

Leaders & Managers

Leadership and Management Overlap

Leadership Management
“Regardless of whether leaders are born or made….it is
absolutely clear that leaders are different. Leaders need
not be intellectual geniuses, but they do need to have the
right stuff and this stuff is not equally present in all
people. Leadership is a demanding and an unrelenting job
with enormous pressures.”

Its Practice is an ART

There is a difference between leadership and
management. The leader and the men who follow him
represent one of the oldest, most natural and most effective
of human relationships. The manager and those he
manages are a later product, with neither so romantic
nor so inspiring a history, leadership is of the spirit,
compounded of personality and vision ; its practice is an
art. Management is of the mind, more a matter of
accurate calculation, of statistics, of methods, time tables
and routine ; its practice is a science.
Managers are necessary ; leaders are essential.
…. Lord slim
 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
• In trying to answer “what is leadership?” It is natural to look at the
relationship between leadership and management.
• To many, the word management suggests words like efficiency, planning,
paperwork, procedures, regulations, control, and consistency.
• Leadership is often more associated with words like risk taking, dynamic,
creativity, change, and vision. Some say leadership is fundamentally a
value-choosing, and thus a value-laden, activity, whereas management is
not.
• Leaders are thought to do the right things, whereas managers are thought
to do things right

(Bennis, 1985; Zalenik, 1983)

 MANAGERS vs LEADERS

• Managers administer; leaders innovate.

• Managers maintain; leaders develop.
• A copy (best practices); an original (create own practices)
• Focus on systems & structures; focuses on people
• Ask how & when; ask what & why
• Eye on the bottom line; eye on the horizon (unlimited)
• Managers relies on control; leaders inspire trust.
• Managers have short-term; leaders, a long-term view.
• Managers accept the status quo; leaders challenge it.
• Classic good soldier; own person (independent thinking).
• Does things right; does the right thing
 MANAGERS vs LEADERS

• Stabilisers; disruptors.
• Accepts; questions.
• Checks and controls (MBE); empowerment and enrichment (MBO)
• Creates subordinates; creates leaders
• Non-charismatic; role models
• Process driven; purpose driven.
• Directive; participative.
• Mission oriented; vision oriented.
• Micro-management; focus on macro issues.
• Positional power; personal power
• Science of management; art of leadership
• In-charge of people; taking care of people in his charge (compassion).
 Leadership & Management
Leadership is of spirit, Management is of the mind
enthusiasm, passion, spark and material assets – it’s
of the personality and vision practice is a science
– it’s practice is an art

Leadership and Management are as different as CHALK & CHEESE.