This point is so important we’ve made it twice (via Drucker and Hopper, of course) – management and leadership are not the same thing. This week’s featured quotes from our\u00a0top 15<\/a> are:<\/p>\n “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker<\/p>\n “You manage things; you lead people.” – Grace Murray Hopper<\/p>\n So, how do you tell which is which? Are you a leader? A manager? Both? What does it all mean?!<\/p>\n Luckily, Discovery Performance have prepared a handy cheat-sheet to help you tell the difference between the two roles:<\/p>\n
| \n Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Visionary<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Transactionary<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Focused on people<\/td>\n Focused on processes\/things<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Encouraging and developing others<\/td>\n Telling others what to do<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Emphasis on the bigger picture<\/td>\n Emphasis on the day-to-day functions<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Flexible, adaptable, agile<\/td>\n Rigid, rule-following<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Defined by attitude and behavior<\/td>\n Defined by workplace hierarchy<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Of course, any short description of the differences between leadership and management has to include generalisations – not all managers are rigid rule-followers, after all – but this leads us to the heart of the leader vs. manager debate.<\/p>\n |