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Leadership and Management
Leadership and management are two ideas that are often used randomly. However, these words actually describe two different concepts. Both are vital for success in a business environment.
? The differences between management and leadership
Management: is dealing with complexity, "complication". The main aim of a manager is to maximize the output of the organization through administrative implementation. To achieve this, managers must use the following four functions: Controlling, Planning, Leading and organizing. Without good management, enterprises tend to be disorganized. Good management brings the organization to a level of stability, and obtains an amount of quality and profitability.
Leadership: is about coping with change. Many changes in the recent decades have made the leadership an important concept, such as rapid growth in the world economy, globalization, and international competition. As a result leadership demand had increased. Leader is born to be a managers, it can learn some of the skills up to a specific point.
? Setting a direction versus planning and budgeting
Setting a direction is not the same as planning or long term planning. Planning is function used by the managers, so they can get ordered results. Setting a direction is a process used by the leaders, it is broader than the planning, and it creates a vision and strategies. Visions are unexplained clearly, but once they are developed in a good business direction they can produce the right outcome. It is too difficult to come up with a vision and some times it is exhausting, but those people who accept these long term visions are risk takers ...