Leadership

The Nature of Leadership

LEADERSHIP - the ability to influence people toward the attainment of organizational goals

-a “people” activity and is dynamic and involves the use of power

LEADERSHIP vs. MANAGEMENT

COMPARISON

|LEADERSHIP |MANAGEMENT |

|Create a vision |Concentrate on doing things efficiently |

|Leaders have followers |Managers have subordinates |

|Leaders are inspirational and charismatic |Managers are productive and effective |

|Manages changes, external and internal |Manage the complexity of task and the organization structures |

|Leaders have followers |Managers control subordinates |

|People are LEAD |Projects are MANAGED |

|Align the organization to the vision |Organic teams, allocate resources, build and execute plans to achieve |

| |objectives |

|Synthesis put together all the issues and solve them holistically |Analysis of the issues by breaking them into smaller problems and then|

|(bottom-up approach) |solve each of them (top-down approach) |

|Learns through experience (based on ideas) |Learns via training (based on facts) |

|Doing the right...