MANAGEMENT VS LEADERSHIP

The conventional boundaries between management vs leadership consisted of: managers would ensure smooth operational running, cope with daily complex projects, make decisions, discuss, negotiate, organize departments and people by areas of responsibility. Maintain quality, productivity, performance improvement by establishing policies and procedures and well-grounded reporting and control systems.

Leadership would inspire and motivate employees to embrace fresh ideas and project-models and would develop visions and long-term strategies.

Nowadays, the concept of management vs leadership is growing and changing. Organizations are developing flatter structures and concentrating decision making downward to teams and employees. The times of a totalitarian-boss that just orders people around are gone. Employees give authentic dedication if they are encouraged to think innovatively and are mobilized to contribute, participate, make decisions, seek solutions and become partners rather than followers.

Organizations are expecting more than keen managers or great leaders. They are looking for executives who can concurrently lead and manage. Executives are people who lead, build visions and strategies, mastermind operations and allocate resources effectively. They cascade and share strategies and plans with all structures and teams, distributing power and bringing out leadership at much deeper levels.

Management vs Leadership

Management	Leadership
Sustain constancy; cope with complexity facilitate goals and monitor achivements achievemen control, plan, direct,organize, schedule negotiate, discuss, consult, report maintains systems, policies, procedures, protocols l	Nurture innovative approaches and ideas generate genuine enthusiasm modify organizational structure; recognize internal and external opportunities, threats and cope with them develop visions and strategies and communicate them make decisions that boost the long-term stability of the organization cope with change

The Manager as a Leader:

Regardless of your position and the management theory applied within your Agency the following attributes apply to every organizational context and every leader, manager and supervisor:

be true to your ethics and principles
pursue your goals and help others do the same
generate innovative and productive ideas
consider the present and the upcoming
acknowledge existing and rising opportunities/ risks
effectively communicate actions that will play a part to individual and organizational success
monitor the organization and inspire others to execute effectively and efficiently
bring out leadership from everyone in the organization,
empower others by decentralizing power
keep on to succeed and help others to do the same.

Only through effective leadership do organizations and their people attain success.

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