:Managers and leaders complementary but controversial roles

To deal a business successfully both leadership and management must go hand in hand. They are not the same thing but they are necessarily linked, and complementary. That’s why any effort to separate the two is likely to cause more problems than it solves!!!

Managers’ tasks include the following: The manager’s job is to plan, organize and coordinate. The manager administers. The manager is a copy of his/her head boss. The manager maintains the work.

The manager focuses on systems and structure; The manager relies on control; The manager has a short-range view; The manager asks how and when; The manager has his or her eye always on the bottom line;

The manager imitates; The manager accepts the status quo; The manager is the classic good soldier; The manager does things right;

Whereas leaders posses the following characteristics in handling a business: The leader’s job is to inspire and motivate the business; the leader innovates; the leader is an original; the leader develops;

the leader focuses on people; the leader inspires trust; the leader has a long-range perspective; the leader asks what and why; the leader’s eye is on the horizon;

the leader originates; the leader challenges it; the leader is his or her own person; the leader does the right thing;