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What is the difference between leadership and management?
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Leaders lead people and management manages people. A leader is someone who takes people to a better place than where they were before, growth has occurred. While management can have leadership qualities from time to time their main objective is to make sure things are running the way they were set up, growth isn’t always a focus.
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Management is meant to maintain organizational structure and processes, while leadership encapsulates everything and every concept needed to take people from “here” to “THERE.” Management is not as multifaceted as leadership, and not all managers are considered leaders.
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Managers manage. Growth is optional. Maintaining the status quo might be seen as a victory.
Leaders lead. Growth is the goal. Maintaining the status quo is a sign of ineffectiveness.
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I think management is making sure people do what they are supposed to do – it is task oriented.
Leadership is guiding people to be better at what they do – it is people oriented. -
Managers – help people do what they’re supposed to do where they’re currently at
Leaders – take people where they need to go
