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Leadership and Management

Most people would assume that management and leadership have the same definition. After examining several articles and through my own life experiences I would disagree and have to say that leadership and management are two different roles. You can be a leader and a manager but being both requires a special set of skills. A leader will inspire people by example and will create followers from their example. Whereas a manager will develop idea’s and task and assign those to others to complete on time.

A leader will most likely be natural born. They will have to posse great people skills, though difficult to teach it is possible. With that said, I think it would be more likely to have a leader become a good mananger than it would be to have a manager become a good leader. 

A good manager should realize their weakness and will look for qualified people to help in the areas they are weak. For example, if a manager is not a strong leader but is a great planner and speaker then they should look for employee’s that will help fill in the area of leadership. 

This is the main topic of discuss in my first class as I am going through a MBA program. Before this I never thought about a manager and a leader being different roles, but now that I have reflected back on my experiences and read about other theories and ideas I can definitly understand how the roles are different yet share a common bond as well.