Thursday, September 16, 2010

Leadership??? or Management???

Would you prefer a good leader?, or a good manager?

Of course its based of what you need done, right?  But can one person effectively do both at the same time?

Leadership is defined as a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task, by wikipedia


Management, defined by Wikipedia, is the acts of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planningorganizingstaffingleading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal.


While leadership has a more broad definition, management is very specific in the fact that it sites controlling as an option to obtain the desired results.  Those results are even defined as "common" when talking about management, they are specific to what the manager wants to achieve.  


So, while leadership is the process of influencing other to achieve a common goal.  Management is only concerned with the process of the individual goal, not how to get there, as long as it gets done. 

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