Difference between Leader and Manager http://bit.ly/cPwQHE
| Leadership | Management | |
| Conflicts: | Leader uses the conflicts | Manager avoids the conflicts |
| Focus: | Leading people | Managing work |
| Outcomes: | Achievements | Results |
| Appeal to: | Heart | Head |
| Origin of word: | The word “leader” adopted from the German: the word Führer, and its accompanying ideas on the Führerprinzip | The verb manage comes from the Italian maneggiare which in turn derives from the Latin manus The French word mesnagement |
| Also refers to: | Leadership also refers to those entities that perform one or more acts of leading | Management can also refer to the person or people who perform the act(s) of management |
| Approach to risk: | Risk-taking | Risk averse |
| Meaning: | Leadership means “the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members.” | Management comprises directing and controlling a group of one or more people or entities for the purpose of coordinating and harmonizing that group towards accomplishing a goal. |
| Seeks: | Vision | Objectives |
| Role in decision-making: | Facilitative | Involved |
| Horizon: | Long term | Short term |
| Offers in exchange: | Excitement in exchange for work | Money in exchange of work |
| Styles: | Transformational, Dictatorial, Authoritative, Consultative & Participative | Transactional, Autocratic, Consultative and Democratic |
| Power through: | Charisma & Influence | Formal authority & Position |
| Organization: | Leaders have followers | Manager have subordinates |
Christy Geiger, Executive Business Coach & Trainer, Minneapolis, MN
