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The main difference between leaders and managers is that leaders have people
follow them while managers have people who work for them.
A successful business owner needs to be both a strong leader and manager to get
their team on board to follow them towards their vision of success. Leadership is
about getting people to understand and believe in your vision and to work with
you to achieve your goals while managing is more about administering and
making sure the day-to-day things are happening as they should.
Managers Leaders
From reviewing the table above that is based on Kotter’s work, it can be seen that
Kotter also places an emphasis on control for managers, but not for leaders.
Rather, leaders are seen to provide inspiration and generate energy and
enthusiasm, while managers on the other hand, focus on making sure that the
organization continues to tick along in an efficient manner, and continually
improving efficiency through definition of rules and processes, and so on. Kotter’s
argument can be seen clearly by reviewing the table – of course, inspiration,
motivation and energy drive employees to do their job, but individuals and teams
also need to have structure, rules and procedures in place to be able to achieve
this, thus the two functions go hand in hand to deliver success for organizations,
and both skills are indeed required.