Managing things and leading people

Abstract

What is a Leadership? It is the process through which leaders influence the values, behavior, and attitude of others. Leadership qualities can either be innate or also can be acquired. A Leader is someone who shows direction, influences, motivates, and inspires. A Leader is a person who can bring constructive change. The core values of a Leader are moral courage, integrity, decisiveness, and assertiveness. A good Leader has to have: knowledge and skills, a sense of priority, focus, vision, judgment, charisma, trust, and emotional intelligence. A Leader motivates the team members in any situation if they perform well or in case of failure. A good Leader applies the following approaches to leading: a strategic approach, human assets approach, expertise approach, unbox approach, and change approach. A Leader does the right thing at the right time, in right place. The manager does things right. A Manager is someone who plans, organizes, allocates resources, and controls and solves problems. The manager administers while the Leader innovates. A manager focuses on system processes, a Leader focuses on people; a Manager relies on control, a Leader inspires trust; Manager has a short-range view; a Leader has a long-range perspective. A Leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. All Managers are not Leaders but all Leaders can be Managers.