Managers VS Leaders

“Leadership involves managers using their power, personality, influence, persuasion and communication skills to coordinate people and groups so that their activity and efforts are in harmony”

(Foundation of Management, ICM, 2010)

Introduction

Making a team from ordinary to extraordinary means understanding and embracing the difference about two important things between management and leadership. According to business Peter Drucker “Management is doing things right : leadership is doing the right things.”

Managers and leaders are two completely different roles, though people often use the term interchangeably. Managers are facilitators of the success of their team members. They are guaranteed their people have everything they need to be productive and successful because they are trained, happy and have minimal barriers in their way: are they well trained for the next level: are they experienced and are challenging them. The best managers who consistently perform their leaders and inspire their co-workers.

Conversely, a leader can be anyone who has a certain talent, who creatively thinks out of the box and has good ideas, who have experience in certain business or project aspects that can be beneficial to managers and teams. A leader leads by strength not a titles.

Successful business owner must be a strong leader and manager so that their team can follow their vision of success. Leadership is about getting people to understand and believe in their vision and work with you to achieve your goals while more about what and everyday things.

This short paper will explain what the real definition of Managers and Leaders is, how it works in each role and focuses on the differences of Managers and Leaders.

Leaders in leading a team

Leader is an individual who holds a superior ranking within a group, formal or informal who uses their position to enforce a level of influence and control.  There are many definitions that explain what the leader means. Stodgily concludes "There are almost a lot concepts of definitions of leaders who are created by many people". While Peter Drucker sums up that: "The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers. To gain followers requires influence but doesn't exclude the lack of integrity in achieving this”. (Yukl, 1989)

In the role play, a leader has several roles such as, Directing is to give direction to his team to bring followers to move forward in success. Coaching, teaching the material so that every follower gets a good insight. Supporting, as a leader must always encourage members to stay ahead of, challenging challenges. leader can not be said to be a leader if he is not able to engage a new leader. and a leader is one who wants to walk with his followers to achieve the desired achievement together. And a leader is not a messenger who always relies on the performance of others.

Managers as road manager

Manager is an individual who gives an organized authority to take charge of a group, task or project with the understanding  subordinates will report to them. Managers are the people whose assignments are assigned, and routinely thought out whether they achieve the desired goals through planning and budgeting, organization and placement of employees, direction, align people, motivate and inspire. (Kotter, 2001)

their researchers consider a leader to have the soul, passion and creativity as a manager have thought, rational and perseverance. A leader is flexible, innovative, inspirational, brave and independent and at the same time a respectable,  analytical,  deliberate, authoritative and stable. (Capowski, 1994)

A manager has a role play in running his tasks are: Planning, how the job works as it should, making the design work for the progress of team work in the future. Organize, organize work to be organized and run smoothly so as not to fall apart. Direct, from planning and organizing the outcomes of the design work will be directed by the Managers to get organized and last jobs Controls, Managers are in charge of controlling each team's work so that the organized work plans work in accordance with the original plan.

Difference between Leaders and Managers

Leaders	Managers
Talk about individual in terms of aspirations and what needs	Create Procedures, roles and responsibility
Act like authoritative individual	Official Authority
Create Vision and Mission then spread them	Achieve targets, numerical
Build confidence and trust	Control People and be a supervisor
Promote the teams’s growth	Interest in achievements of the resources
Engage the explanations from other people and embrace the target	Action without justifying the request
Team member feel pride to work with their team and exceed their performance	Team members do what they  are required to do and feel themselves  demotivated
Passionate of what does and tends to dramatize ideas and expression to increase the effectiveness of communication	Communication without passion , they are professional and allow
Present challenge and stimulate Participation	Provide directives and instruction

 Conclusion

Leaders and Managers are two people who have an important role in efforts to advance an organization, company or in an effort to achieve goals. Leaders and Managers jointly do their work for the sake of smooth work to achieve the success that has been planned from the beginning. Without a Leader, it would not be possible to run a mission because the task of the leader itself is to give direction to the team members to be able to pursue a path together. A leader is a person who is capable of producing new leaders and in order to achieve success, a leader walks with the members and gives direction and spreads the Vision. So also with the manager. No way will also work well without the manager because the manager himself is in charge of controlling the course of the trip, designing the plan and a manager is someone who is always on the side of the Leader to run the task.

 

References

Capowski, G. (1994). "Anatomy of a leader:Where re the leader of tomorrow?". Management Review, Vol 83 Issue 3, 10-18.

Kotter, J. P. (2001). "What leaders really do ?" Harvard Business review Vol 79 Issue, 85-96.

Yukl, G. (1989). Managerial Leadership: a review of theory and research. Journal of Management Vol 15 Issue 2, 251-290.

Bohoris, G. A. (2008). Leadership vs Management, https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED219408.pdf, 

retrieved December 25, 2017.