Leadership Is Different From Management

"Management is not something you do to other people. You manage your inventory, your checkbook, your resources. You can even manage yourself. But you do not manage other human beings. You manage things, you lead people." TheServant, p.28

From OnBecomingaLeader, p.45:

• The manager focuses on systems and structure; the leader focuses on people.
• The manager relies on control; the leader inspires trust.
• The manager administers; the leader innovates.
• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
• The manager does things right; the leader does the right things.

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JeffChapman writes...

People much prefer being led than being managed.

Leadership is about guidance and support, Management is about direction and control.

Managers try to create the Thing; good Leaders create the Environment.

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JohnKotter? wrote in 1990 "A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management.". He went on to author LeadingChange and TheHeartOfChange

see The Best Leadership Guru at http://www.cio.com/research/leadership/leading/column.html?CID=553

• it was said John first raised the awareness of the differences between these roles

See also: http://home.earthlink.net/~jdc24/Leadership.htm

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Whoever glofifies this concept has never worked under a good leader who was a poor manager.

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See also: WhatIsLeadership