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Leader Vs Manager

Leaders and managers have important differences. Leaders influence followers through vision and inspiration to achieve goals, while managers are responsible for planning, organizing, directing, coordinating and controlling an organization. Leaders motivate and inspire people to follow their vision through transformational leadership, while managers ensure day-to-day operations run efficiently through transactional leadership. Overall, leaders focus on people and promoting change, while managers focus on processes and maintaining stability.

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Leader Vs Manager

Leaders and managers have important differences. Leaders influence followers through vision and inspiration to achieve goals, while managers are responsible for planning, organizing, directing, coordinating and controlling an organization. Leaders motivate and inspire people to follow their vision through transformational leadership, while managers ensure day-to-day operations run efficiently through transactional leadership. Overall, leaders focus on people and promoting change, while managers focus on processes and maintaining stability.

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LEADER VS MANAGER

INTRODUCTION
LEADER
 A leader is a person who influences his followers to achieve a specified goal .
He is a person with a vision and inspires his followers in such a way that it
becomes their vision.

A leader is a person , who holds a dominant position in a given field and has
the ability to influence a group of people towards achievement of objectives.

Leadership is a skill and the person who possess this ability is known as a
LEADER.
MANAGER
A manager is a person who manages the organization such that he is responsible
for planning, organizing, directing , coordination and control.

There are various types of managers present in an organization such as top level
managers , functional managers , project managers etc.

A manager is someone who is an in charge of the organisation and has a group of


subordinates who reports to him or her about the day to day operations.
• The main difference between leaders and managers is that leaders have people
follow them while managers have people who work for them.

• Leadership is about getting people to understand and believe in your vision and to
work with you to achieve your goals while , managing is more about administering
and making sure the day to day things are happening as they should.
KEY DIFFERENCES
Basis for comparison MANAGER
LEADER

MEANING A leader is someone who A manager is someone who


influences the subordinates is responsible for managing
towards attainment of the the entire organisation.
desired goal.

AIM AT Motivating and inspiring Directing and controlling


people. people.

PEOPLE Followers. Subordinates.

KEY SKILL Foresightedness. Quick decision making and


coordination.
Contd……………
BASIS OF COMPARISON LEADER MANAGER
APPROACH Set direction Planning activities

LEADERSHIP STYLE Transformational Transactional

STRIVES FOR Effectiveness Efficiency

FOCUSES ON People Process

CHANGE Promotes change Reacts to change

CONFLICT Uses conflict as an asset. Avoid conflict

PERSPECTIVE Long range Short range


CONCLUSION
• Leader create a vision , managers create goals
• Leaders are change agents, managers maintain the status quo.
• Leaders are unique , managers copy.
• Leader take risk, manager control risk.
• Leaders has long term view , managers work for short term view
• Leaders coach , managers direct.
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