Leadership is the ability to influence employees to voluntarily pursue organizational goals. Leadership is vision, enthusiasm, love, trust, passion and consistency. Management is to pursue organizational goals efficiently and effectively by integrating the work of people through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizations resources. Leadership and management are not the same. They are not interchangeable. Leadership is coping with change and management is coping with complexity (Williams 444).
Paul Tagliabue has efficiently and effectively adopted both qualities of being a good manager and a good leader and will continue to guide the National Football League as the most successful pro sports league.
Paul Tagliabue was appointed the NFL's commissioner in 1989 succeeding Pete Rozelle. Many believed Pete Rozelle to be the standard of measure when considering a new commissioner. Pete Rozelle was believed to have had the vision and leadership to guide the NFL to a new level. Paul took over the NFL just as it concluded a decade of two work stoppages and the embarrassing "scab football". NFL owners began leaving their traditional franchise homes in search of newer stadiums and bigger pay markets. Paul was viewed as being out of touch because of his reactive nature, management-by-crisis style, inability to form cohesion among team owners, and his faulty public relations skills (Greenfield).
Whether in businesses, governments, communities, organizations and even relationships, a form of leadership or management exists. The difference between the two positions can be simply put as, in management you manage things and materials,
Being the hot headed man no one allied with, P.T. Beauregard got things done. The military was very dependant on P.T. Beauregard because of his great leadership artistry during the Mexican American War. Because of his skills/ expertise in the Mexican American War, from 1861 to 1865 the Confederate Army depended on him for his leadership skills during the Civil War.
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Management is defined as the act or manner of managing, handling, direction, or control (dictionary.com). Leadership is defined as an act or instance of leading; guidance; direction (dictionary.com). They do not mean the same thing; however, it is thought that a manager should have leadership skills to be able to manage an organization. Not all managers have great leadership skills and just because a manager does not have these skills does not mean he or she is a bad manager.
It had a significant income, a large fan base, and a relatively solid economy. The NFL refuses to pursue it as a market even for preseason games. With this philosophy, the NFL may be great at its home game but will never score in the away game of a successful multinational company (Polson and Whitside, 2014, p.667). The NFL must be willing to become a transformational leader to gain a multinational exposure and to reap the benefits of a global market. The only way this will happen is if the NFL creates a shared vision for each stakeholder group. It appears that the NFL wants to globalize (personal vision) yet certain stakeholders are uncertain. This uncertainty can be eliminated through buy-in. The NFL must paint a picture that is so compelling that others will adopt the idea to go international as if it were their own. Each stakeholder group must seek the good of the entire organization and not just its own sake. Paul, to the church in Philippi, speaks of being humble and thinking others more than ourselves, stating, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests but also for the interests of others (Philippians 2:3-4, NKJV). Maybe this thought process is one of the biggest drawbacks to expanding that the NFL has faced; its lack of leadership among the various stakeholders. Possibly, to
John W. Gardner born 1912, had a varied and productive career as an educator, public official, and political reformer. Gardner's belief in society's potential was his guiding force, but he was wary of the dangers of complacency and inaction. Perhaps best known as the founder of the lobby Common Cause, he was the author of several best-selling books on the themes of achieving personal and societal excellence.
How football began, the first American football game was played on November 6, 1869. The Rutgers vs. Princeton played the first game (Bennett). Walter Camp introduced the line of scrimmage and down and distance (Bennett). The first professional “league” was the Ohio League (Bennett). The American Football League (AFL) started in 1960 (Bennett). The first Super Bowl was in 1967 and the Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chief (Brooks and King). The Houston Oilers defeated the Los Angles Charges in the first AFL championship (Brooks and King). Considered one of the greatest coaches, Vince Lombardi, died from cancer on September 3, 1970 at the age of 57 (Brooks and King). Seven days after Lombardi’s death, the National Football League honored him with the name of the Super Bowl trophy (Brooks and King). Franco Harris made the “Immaculate Reception” which lead to the first Pittsburgh Steelers victory for them (Brooks and King). In the 1970’s the Pittsburgh Steelers won four Super Bowls (Brooks and King). In 1978 the National Football League moved from 14 games a season to 16 games (Brooks and King). O.J. Simpson is the first player to rush over 2,000 yards (Brooks and King). In 1981 Ronald Regan said “Football is the last thing left in civilization where men can lite...
Bill Belichick is debatably one of the best NFL head coaches of all time. He has carefully crafted his leadership abilities throughout his head coaching career, which began with a struggling stint in Cleveland and has continued with a successful ongoing career in New England. His ability to lead and develop great teams comes as no surprise given his immense leadership qualities. Belichick’s is such a great leader because of his ability to innovate and strategically plan, his capability to effectively communicate and inspire those around him, and his extreme commitment to his team and himself.
Rudolph Giuliani can best be describe as a transformational leader from his service of governing his followers in a positive direction. He did this by promoting change throughout the corrupt society New York was living in during the 1990s. For example, when Giuliani was first elected Mayor of New York City in the year of 1993. There were at least a million of New York citizens who were on welfare. Also, crime rate and drug activities were high as well as taxes and unemployment begin increasing out of proportion. However, Giuliani transformed the city around by assisting followers and their problems. As a result, “mayor Giuliani made good on his promise, doing away with New York’s traditional politics of soft and ineffectual symbolism.” Which led to safer and cleaner streets. Giuliani clearly changed the status quo by articulating current problems and providing a compelling vision.
The phrase “leader” versus “manager.” is used to show and compere how Leading is related to managing, Bennis and Nanus (1985:21) help us understand the broader role of supervision in their discussion of management and leadership: “To be a manager is to bring about, to accomplish, to have charge of, responsibility for, to conduct. Leading, on the other hand, is influencing, guiding in direction, course, action, opinion.” They go on to say that managers are people who “do things right,” and leaders are people who “do the right things.” Managers are more efficiency driven and focus on mastering routine activities, while leaders are driven by vision and judgment. Managers tend to be bean counters, while leaders focus on achieving desired results.
In the movie ‘Remember the Titans’, there are many management concepts covered throughout the movie and he is the agent in the movie. The players on the Titans are the targets of the influence. ‘Remember the Titans’ is the perfect movie for Exam 3. It covers many topics that were on the exam, and this class has given me a different way of looking at the movie. I have seen the movie many times, but I never looked at it from a management perspective. It now makes sense to me to look at a football team, or any other type of sports team, from a management point of view.
One of the topics in organizational development today is leadership. Leadership is what individuals do to mobilize other people in organizations and communities. According to Kouzes & Posner, there are five practices and ten commitments of exemplary leadership. The five practices of exemplary leadership include: Model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, and encourage the heart. In the Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner found similar patterns and actions of leadership that created the essentials to achieve success. Utilizing the research conducted by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, I have created a leadership plan that would apply to the Admission Department at Texas Wesleyan University.
A successful leader is most importantly a mentor. This person grooms his or her staff to take his or her place, by teaching, inspiring and helping one to reach personal goals as well as the goals of the organization. Sam Adams, one of the leaders of the Boston Tea Party, was quoted as saying: "Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish (Government Leaders, 2011)."
Both perform different functions but when it comes to running an organization, then it will require both leaders and the managers. Managers build goals, they plan the work to be done, break it into various steps, decide the time taken to do each task, decide the sequence and the resources required to do the task, checks if the work is being done as indicated and at the end takes remedial measures if there is any deviation from the original plan. On the other hand, leaders create followers. Both are an inherent part of supervision and are required at every stage in an organization
Leadership and management are two fundamental concepts which are involved in the effective management of organizations. Leadership in my opinion is a complex concept, which includes association of human qualities and the result of their activities. To be a great leader means not only following own visions, but also work towards company’s goals.