Difference between Good Leadership and Good Management.
Do you want to be led or to be managed? Being led indicate that you are willingly being
led by a leader whereas being managed, you are being told what to do and usually not
willingly. Warren G. Bennis says Managers do thing right; leaders do the right thing I
believe this saying is correct because what a Manager does is to complete whatever it is set
for he or she to be accomplished and follow the company policy closely. A manager will
only need to complete the task set therefore only doing the task right regardless of how his
or her subordinates feel. Whereas a leader will influence his or her subordinates with his
idea before making the right decision. My definition of Management is making the most
efficient use of human, physical and financial resources to achieve given objectives;
involves planning, monitoring, coordinating and reviewing activities. This would be what
a manager would have to go through when given and objective to achieve. The definition
of Leadership is to influencing others to achieving desired aims and objectives; leaders set
the agenda that managers follow. Ideally, a manager who is also a leader is everyone who
wants to follow but it is hard to have both in life.
Leadership is only a facet of good management. (1). The role of leadership: to provide
inspiration, create opportunities, energize people, and make key choices. We need to
understand that there are two kinds of leaders: strategic and operational. A strategic leader
can predict the company future and to invest the resources necessary to create it.
Operational leader job is to implementing the vision. Although, there are two different
leaders, but there are only four things that it takes to become a Good Leader. They are:
selecting talent, motivating people, coaching, and building trust. A good leader should not
be afraid of subordinates that are more knowledgeable or talented then him or her as these
subordinate helps to get a task done well. A Good leader should be able to designate
responsibilities to the right person.When the responsibilities are designated correctly, it
could motivate people, as those responsibilities are meaningful to them. With the
combination of intrinsic motivation with extrinsic rewards and recognition, it can produce
highly motivated people. If you want people to cooperate, reward and recognition is very
important, these incentives should reinforce the good behavior needed for the team
