manager should be a leader

manager should be a leader

What is leadership? How is it different from being a manager? How can leaders keep their finger on the pulse of what's happening, inspire others to high achievement, guide their team members through difficult decisions, and still have time to actually finish a cup of coffee while it's still warm? The solution is disarmingly simple: Ask questions. Listen to the answers. Ask some more questions. Give good answers to questions asked by others. Easier said than done.The Relationship of Leadership and Management

In general, the middle of the road viewpoints hold that:

1) although there are many overlaps, leadership and management are different things, involving differing skills, behaviors, and viewpoints;

2) those who use only leadership skills, behaviors, and viewpoints are ineffective in organizations that have significant administrative components;

3) those who use only management skills, behaviors, and viewpoints are ineffective in organizations that have significant human components; and

4) in organizations having both administrative and human components, only those who use an appropriate balance of management and leadership skills, behaviors, and viewpoints can be effective.

As an example, William Wallace (who most of us Anglos know as "Braveheart") would have been completely ineffective leading the Scots to victory over the English if he were to have used only management skills. Conversely, the proprietor of a financial management business would probably relate to her clients well but wouldn't make much money for them if she were to use only leadership skills.

Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, wrote that leadership is a facet of management. He wrote, "Leadership is just one of the many assets a successful manager must possess. Care must be taken in distinguishing between the two concepts. The main aim of a manager is to maximize the output of the organization through administrative implementation. To achieve this, managers must undertake the following functions:

• organization

• planning

• staffing

• directing

• controlling

Leadership is just one important component of the directing function."

If effective management requires us to practice good management skills and effective leadership requires us to practice good leadership skills, and both are needed to do our jobs as SGLs well; then first we need an ...

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- Max DePree

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- Lao Tse

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers

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- Ross Perot

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- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

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- Henry Kissinger

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