Tuesday, March 3, 2009

LEADERSHIP IS DOING RIGHT THINGS AND MANAGEMENT IS DOING THINGS RIGHTLY

Leadership is doing the right things, Management is doing things rightly.
Leadership and Management sounds usually as synonym, but if we consider Warren Bennis(1809)’s concept theory are far apart in nature. According to his theory, manager in a management is far different from a leader in leadership. He said, “Power by position make you a manager, power by influence make you a leader.” He added further that an administrator asks how one is going to perform the task productively, but on other hand a leading innovator asks what is the task?, and what is the motive behind doing it. He differentiated managers from leaders, stating that managers control their group where as leaders show trust and ergo are more morally upright and that is why sometimes management is also known as subset to leadership.
Leadership is long-term prospect, management is short-term. Manager accepts and acts accordingly, whereas leaders challenges and then reacts. Managers generally imitates, where as leaders innovates. Management is system-oriented and thus focus to its prime purposes and goals, where as leadership is people-oriented and thus the focus is on people.
If we consider Hensey and Blanchard’s thoughts upon this issue, they said management applied to business achievement of original goal is paramount.
Therefore, by Fielder’s concept we can justify the statement made by hensey-blanchard that management is doing things rightly because of this only reason, and hence it is task-oriented yet bit similar to leadership which is in fact relation-oriented. But still if ethics and values are added, no difference is there between both of them in aspects like situational interaction, decision making, vision, speech, function, behaviour, charisma and intelligence needed in both. Motivation, Ambition, energy, honesty, integrity and self-confidence might disappear in ego-conflict of management because it is just devoid of human emotions.
Hence, management is facing crisis in lack of business ethics, honesty and lack of symbiotic relation. But leadership never fails it is optimistically imbibed and so always succeed to get its ultimate aim i.e. certainly as like we have Mahatma Gandhi, S.C.Bose , Nelson Mandela, Bhim Rao ambedkar, Mother Terressa and many other prominent leaders.Ergo, lack of emotions and ethics made management a dry course of flow charts, which is just to follow the order, not to understand your own onus. Whereas leadership, if would have been initiated in recent years in the field of business by following proper cardinal virtues and ethics, Then Financial crisis kind of condition will be certainly not obtained in the future.
-Mrinal

4 comments:

  1. Very true! Infact the biggest difference i have known is that a leader always has a vision but a manager might never have. To a manager its all about business.But yes i cannot rule out the possibility that leader can be a manager and vice-versa.

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  2. While reading this post for a moment I was wondering if it is one of those Shiv Khera's lectures...:D

    I too agree with Silpara that there is a lack of vision in a manager as compared to leader but we also need to remember that there are lots of constraints under which a manager works whereas a leader has no such limitations!

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  4. THE WAY I SEE IT,A REAL LEADER HAVE MORE PEOPLE SKILLS HE THINKS HOLISTICALLY FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVEOPMENT FOR THE HOMO SAPIENS AS WELL FOR OUR MOTHER EARTH, BUT ALL THESE TRAITS ARE MISSING FROM TODAYS SO CALLED LEADERS WE NEED REAL LEADERS HAVING ALL THE TRAITS WHO BELIEVE IN DOINGS NOT IN SAYINGS, MAKING CASTLES IN THE AIR IS VERY EASY BUT TO GIVE THEM FOUNDATIONS IS REALLY A TOUGH TASK WE NEED YOUNG BLOOD ,EDUCATED , HONEST PERSONNELS IN POLITICS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR COUNTRY............

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