Running head: MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP PAPER
Management and Leadership Paper
Gwendolyn Gransion
University of phoenix
Management: Theory, Practice, and Application
MGT 330
Kathleen Dominick
Jan 06, 2007
Management and Leadership Paper
Managers are faced with many tasks each day one of which is leading people. The term's manager and leader are often used in the same context, but they are not synonymous. Understanding the difference between the two terms is important. The goal of a successful manager is to achieve the maximum output of the organization by way of administrative implementation.
To aid in accomplishing this goal the manager must use the four functions of management, which are organizing, planning, leading, and controlling. "Leading is stimulating people to be high performers. It includes motivating and communicating with employees, individually and groups. Leading involves close day-to-day contact with people, helping to guide and inspire them toward achieving team and organizational goals." (Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World, by Bateman and Snell 7th edition, 2007)
"Leadership involves communicating a vision, Management is the implementation of another's vision. To speak metaphorically, leaders build castles in the sky for the managers to live in and run." (Robert Taylor, MD, 2003) Another way to contrast between managers and leaders is the way risk is handled. The nature of a leader is to take calculated risk and managers like to decrease risk.
Successful leaders never focus on failure they always keep their sights on making the vision a success. Leaders keep their focus in the future which make them visionaries. This often makes them seem distant and perhaps not a team p ...