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Leadership Vs Mangament

Introduction
With corporate scandals, accounting fraud, and a general sense of entitlement in the workplace, there has never been a time that the roles of leaders and managers need to be clearly defined than today. While effective management can happen without new ideas and vision, leadership can never be present without new ideas and vision. Leadership and management will be briefly examined as well as recommendations for a healthy organizational structure.
Leadership
"The world is full of managers and desperately short of leaders – real leaders" (Murphy, E. & Murphy, M., 2003). The lack of true leadership will ultimately be the cause of failure in any endeavor. A company may have a marketable product, but without leadership, that product cannot be marketed or distributed to its potential. While there are many definitions of leadership, they all come back to the core of moving other people to action.
There are many theories on leadership styles. One of these theories is supervisory leadership, which is "a behavior that provides guidance, support, and corrective feedback for the day to day activities" of a group, or strategic leadership, which "gives purpose and meaning to organizations (Bateman-Snell, 2003). A leader basically provides the vision of an organization, but not just any vision will do.
A leader recognizes and identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the organization and creates a vision that is viable and believable by the organization. The leader must be able to articulate and explain his vision to the organization and have the pulling power to make the organization believe it can be accomplished. While the organization may not have the people necessary to accomplish the vision, an effective leader will begin to attract the type of people necessary to fulfill his vision. This intangible ability of leaders has changed the course of the world.
Abraham Lincoln is a great example of this ability to attract the right type of people....