This week, we look at leadership from the manager’s perspective and explore the

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This week, we look at leadership from the manager’s perspective and explore the differences from looking at leadership from a leader’s perspective. Managers focus on process, procedure, and implementation of the organization’s purpose. A manager's perspective is about getting the job done and keeping stability. The leader’s mindset is about change and moving workers toward the organization's vision. The area of overlap comes in terms of the need to use “soft or people skills” to get their job done. It is said that a manager motivates while a leader empowers. In the following five quotes each leader is commenting on the perspective of a manager in an organization as opposed to a leader. •Define the difference between a manager’s mindset and a leader’s mindset. •Using the readings for the week, reflect and explain the meaning of each quote. and how each quote relates to a manager’s or leader’s mindset.

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” - Peter Drucker

“Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.” - Russell Honore

“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” - Warren Buffett

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” - Paul Hawken

“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” - Lee Iacocca

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Define the difference between a manager’s mindset and a leader’s mindset. •Using the readings for the week, reflect and explain the meaning of each quote. and how each quote relates to a manager’s or leader’s mindset.

Leadership is setting a vision for a great human cause and working towards it. It is about inspiring and empowering employees. Leaders dream of a utopian state and work towards it. They toil towards a grandiose vision. It is about strategy. We need a good manager to structure the tasks and execute things to achieve the vision.

Managers follow the leader’s vision and help him achieve it through flawless execution It is more about administration, supervision, goal setting and achieving. The manager is more about maintaining the currents state and perfecting it. It may not involve any change and may be less risky. It is about processes, procedures, and policies. It is about day-to-day work

Change is driven by the leader. He sets the direction. The manager understands it and operates according to it.

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” - Peter Drucker

Management is about choosing and executing resources and tasks in a perfect way to reach the goal.

Leadership is about choosing the right goals. It may be about extreme change and deviations from the current position. It is not about consistency, it is about being correct

“Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.” - Russell Honore

Leadership is about setting long-term vision and working for something abstract - a large human cause, the impact of which that cannot be, measured precisely

Management is about measurable target setting and achieving it. It is about doing something today and achieving small goals to propel us towards a vision. It is about today.

“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” - Warren Buffett

If the business is fundamentally bad, then even a great management cannot help. So setting a vision and purpose are more important. If the ladder leans on the wrong wall, then the climbing effort will be wasted. Hence even with a great management team, a company can fail if it does not have good vision

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” - Paul Hawken

Good management is about solving problems. It is about doing things the perfect way. It is about perfecting the status quo. It is about motivating and getting people work towards an objective, Paul is emphasizing motivation by managers.

“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” - Lee Iacocca

Management is not just about control, it is about motivating people to achieve goals. This motivation can come in the form of rewards, pay rise, recognition etc.,- intrinsic as well as extrinsic

Leadership is about motivating through inspiration, help employees self-actualize and realize their potential. The rewards are intrinsic.

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