what is the difference between leadership and management?

Answer 1

Management implies team leadership.

Answer 2

Management is planning, leadership is influencing.
A manager usually has to plan a project or manage a department including time and resources, budget and personnel.
A leader is someone who has the ability to influence other people to perform to the best of their ability. This often involves knowing what it is that motivates people either as a group or as an individual.

Answer 3

Management can be defined by a number of traits typically planning, organising, staffing, directing, controlling, innovation, represenation and budgeting. Leadership is really only one trait important that this one is. So the difference between leadership and management can be summed up as leadership is one of the traits required in a good manager.

Answer 4

Leadership is the way one can take the attention of a group and point it into a certain direction. Leading them to one goal. A leader must have the ability to take everyones attention and focus it to the goal at hand.

Management on the other hand is the ability where one can properly organize a work force into a more efficient one. By properly taking advantage of strenghts and weaknessess, one can increase the productivity of a workforce.

In leadership, a leader tends to bring everyone together and point them to a certain goal.
In management, a (boss, most likely) will assign everyone to respective jobs, taking benifit of their strenghts.

Leadership = "Come, here's what we have to do"
Management = " Ok, you do this, and you on the other hand, will do this."

Answer 5

As a manager you could give a leader a task. They would then lead (leaership) those people carrying out the task, but they would also manage those people.

It is very grey really, depending on the task. Leadership generally refers to one person, leading the group. Management could be several.

Sadly, it is all this new pink and fluffy, management speak. Between to think of no ones role being to definitive and you can cross over according to the needs of job, task or person.

Answer 6

These two appear similar because they are about influencing how people in organizations behave and how successful organizations can be. Leadership and management, however operate quite differently.

Leadership is about letting people experience your personal power so they are clear about their own needs and how to take care of them. Management is about making people aware of your positional power so that they will respond to your needs.

Management is about controlling others, leadership is about managing oneself.

I believe it is impossible for an organization to be successful with strong management and no leadership. I believe an organization is most likely to be successful if it has leadership that encourages self-management.

Answer 7

Managers tell, they don't show. Leaders actually LEAD.

A manager basically directs resources to complete predetermined goals or projects. For example, a manager may engage in hiring, training, and scheduling employees in order to accomplish work in the most efficient and cost effective manner possible. A manager is considered a failure if he/she is not able to complete the project or goals with efficiency or when the cost becomes too high.

On the other hand, a leader within a company develops individuals in order to complete predetermined goals and projects. A leader develops relationships with his/her employees by building communication, evoking images of success, and by eliciting loyalty.

Leaders actually do so (lead) by example, where as a manager leads with a "Do as I say, not as I do" philsophy.

Answer 8

Leadership sets the vision and persuades the employees to "buy into" that vision. Management is the actual execution of the vision.

Answer 9

Leadership commands a degree of intelligence while management can be accomplished by any idiot!

Answer 10

A good manager will take his team efficiently up the ladder.
A good leader will ensure that the ladder is on the right wall.