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Leadership vs. Management: What's the Difference?
Leadership and management are related and yet distinct disciplines.
Every leader needs management skills and every manager needs leadership skills. But the leadership-to-management ratio varies by position. What’s yours?
Here are 23-dimensional differences between the two disciplines. Review the differences and then ask yourself: “What leadership-to-management ratio does my current role require?” Then ask, “Where are my gaps and how can I close them?”
Leader vs Manager
- Create vs Duplicate
- Tomorrow vs Today
- Long-Term vs Short-Term
- Goals vs Plans
- Strategic vs Tactical
- Ideas vs Facts
- Explore vs Produce
- Change vs Maintain
- Disturb vs Preserve
- Questions vs Answers
- People vs Things
- Broad vs Deep
- Persuade vs Control
- Inspire vs Instruct
- Systems vs Details
- Commitment vs Compliance
- Why vs What
- Context vs Content
- Innovate vs Execute
- Concepts vs Rules
- Higher Risk vs Lower Risk
- Emotional vs Rational
- Meaning vs Mechanics
