Categories: Management

Defining Leadership; Leader VS Manager

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Leadership is known to be the oldest preoccupation in the world&period; Leadership has long been an important debate topic as well as a driver of innovation for centuries&period; Leadership is said to be an important quality of a manager but not every manager is a leader&period; Both a leader and a manager are crucial for the success of an organization&period; However&comma; organizations usually do not clearly differentiate between the two&period;It is very important to differentiate between a leader and a manager to know what can make the workplace successful&period; The main difference between leaders and managers is how they motivate the people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;adsense1&rsqb;A proper understanding of the definition of leadership can help to differentiate between a leader and a manager&period; The smallest definition of the leadership can be&colon; an influence relationship between the leaders and their followers who intend to bring real changes that serve their mutual purposes&period; &lpar;Rost&period; Pp 103&period; 1993&rpar;&period; Now this definition tells us that leaders have followers not subordinates&period; It’s the managers that have subordinates and have a more authoritarian control&period; Following a manager is something one has to do to keep the job going but in case of the leader it is totally voluntary and one is inspired to follow the leader&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A famous quotation and definition of leadership given by Edwin H&period; Friedman is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future”&period; From this we can infer that leaders use charisma&comma; they assure the followers of transformational benefits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Leaders can motivate and lead to the change&period; Leaders are often achievement-focused and they try to motivate the people&sol;followers towards the vision and mission&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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