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Leadership And Management

Leadership and Management
Leadership and management are two ideas that are often used randomly. However, these words actually describe two different concepts. Both are vital for success in a business environment.
• The differences between management and leadership
Management: is dealing with complexity, "complication". The main aim of a manager is to maximize the output of the organization through administrative implementation. To achieve this, managers must use the following four functions: Controlling, Planning, Leading and organizing. Without good management, enterprises tend to be disorganized. Good management brings the organization to a level of stability, and obtains an amount of quality and profitability.

Leadership: is about coping with change. Many changes in the recent decades have made the leadership an important concept, such as rapid growth in the world economy, globalization, and international competition. As a result leadership demand had increased. Leader is born to be a managers, it can learn some of the skills up to a specific point.

• Setting a direction versus planning and budgeting
Setting a direction is not the same as planning or long term planning. Planning is function used by the managers, so they can get ordered results. Setting a direction is a process used by the leaders, it is broader than the planning, and it creates a vision and strategies. Visions are unexplained clearly, but once they are developed in a good business direction they can produce the right outcome. It is too difficult to come up with a vision and some times it is exhausting, but those people who accept these long term visions are risk takers, and seen as sophisticated thinkers. Long term planning is also a time consuming, because for example, in an unexpected environment become a standard every day, corporation can't cope in this situation with short term planning, as a result they have to start again thinking in a new plan, on the other hand, a long...