Leadership and Management
Jan0
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.
A new start, a new blog
Jan1
I am getting a new start on life, at least that’s the way I am seeing it. In the middle of all the economic chaos God has blessed my wife and I with the ability to be able to sell our house and move closer to the center of the tri cities. On top of this I will be starting a sixteen month MBA program at King College where I work .
Since I won’t be busy enough working full-time and attending the MBA program full-time, I figured why not restart your blog! In reality I thought this would be a great place for me to explain and discuss ideas and theories I will be discovering while attending the business program, but at the same time I don’t want to completely focus on business and economics and leave out my passion for technology, particularly programming and design. You might not think that business and programming go together but they go together like peanut butter and jelly.
I don’t know exactly what business topics we will be discussed yet but as I continue my journey through the MBA I am sure there will be many topics of interest. As for the programming/technology I know I will be posting hints and helpful tips on TYPO3. I am trying to convience the powers to be that this would be a wise system to convert our websites too so I have dove in head first over this christmas break to see how the system works and what it will take to convert our current websites to work in the TYPO3 system.
Please feel free to comment and ask questions on this blog. I will do my best to answer and comment back but as you can see my time might be limited.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy.
