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What is the difference between leadership and management?
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Leadership takes those being led to a place they have not yet been. Management helps with the logistics of getting things done once they get there.
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Leadership guides us to somewhere where it is supposed to be a better and unfamiliar place. Management helps us do what we should do in that new place.
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To me good Leadership has a distinct focus on serving the people “under” you really well being intentional to set the standard of open communication being sure to empower and care about the entirety of the person. Management tends to be less people focused and more task focused relying on the authority of the person to get things done vs the openness of communication, trust, and empowerment.
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Leadership is where the leader has led others in such a way that the people and the leader are actually better for having been through the process whereas management is leads others though the steps to get there without fully understanding why.
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In management you delegate assignments usually for a job that someone already knows how to do, so that a full work can be completed. Where leadership is taking someone from something they do not know or somewhere they have not been and teaching them how to do that thing or get to that place. Leadership is moving someone from where they are and what they know to another level learning something new and becoming a better rounded person in that particular field.
