Management vs. Leadership

      Management and Leadership seems to be the same as understood by the most people but there's a lot of difference on this two. This difference is seen in the way it brings people.By definition, managers have subordinates in which case the title is a misnomer and their power over others is other than formal authority. Leaders do not have subordinates - at least not when they are leading. Many organizational leaders do have subordinates, but only because they are also managers. But when they want to lead, they have to give up formal authoritarian control, because to lead is to have followers, and following is always a voluntary activity.

     The old proverb says that leadership is doing the right thing; management is doing things right. The difference between the two is not as sharp as the saying would suggest, and both are required for effective corporate growth: leadership risk creates opportunities while management strictness turns them into tangible results. Management focuses on the objectives and stability while leadership focuses on vision and change. Managers often work just to stabilized what is the usual things to be done by a good manager and oftentimes they are maintaining that routinary activities while leaders leads by heart and focuses on changing the people from bad habits to good ones of which it creates inspirations to each of his followers and leads largely to change to reach the vision of the organization.Managers says work is to be done because his subordinates are paid and thats what it compliments to their works,but leaders doesn't need to do things like that because through his skills, the followers do it in their own ways due to change in their perceptions and achieve great passion towards working their tasks and that they have all the excitement to do it. Management is somehow autocratic in nature while Leadership is democratic. Subordinates are forced to do their jobs because they are ought to and follow their managers since it is based on the hiearchy of authority and that managers are on their top while the followers are free to do in their own ways as long as it will lead to the vision that they wanted to achieve.

Do you want to be a leader or a manager? You need to make a choice as there is a huge difference. The world is full of managers and short of leaders – real leaders.  Effective leadership is doing right things and putting first things first. Effective management is doing things right, discipline, and carrying it out. When managing, you are performing such activities as planning, directing, organizing, measuring, and controlling. When leading, you are involved with visioning, inspiring, coaching, energizing, and empowering. Management is much broader in scope than leading and focuses on nonbehavioral as well as behavioral issues. Leading emphasizes mainly behavioral issues.

To maximize your long-term success you should strive to be both a manager and a leader and to synergize their functions. Merely possessing management skills is no longer sufficient for success as an executive in today's business world. You need to understand the differences between managing and leading and know how to integrate the two roles to achieve organizational success. As a manager, you must make sure that a job gets done, and as a leader, you must care about and focus on the people who do the job. To integrate management and leadership, therefore, demands a delicate balance between a calculated and logical focus on organizational processes (management) and visioning, energizing employees, and a genuine concern for them as people (leadership). 
     In the discussion, I realized that it really takes a lot of efforts and talents to be a great manager and a leader. We have to master the good qualities of both since it is needed to be succesful in leading and managing people in an organization.