Management Leadership

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Traditionally, management and leadership have been described as two separate roles with distinct characteristics. The paper describes how the manager follows procedure and exerts authority, and ensures that the organization follows a given set of rules. The leader creates a strong desire in those around him or her to follow or emulate, but may be more radical in approach than is consistent with the stable operation of the business. This paper examines ways for the present-day manager-leader to integrate the best of these polarized functions into one role, and to minimize the dangers of each.

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"This division of skill in management versus leadership exacerbates the fundamental problem that one person with both roles faces. Management as traditionally defined is fundamentally conservative; it seeks to understand the situation and devise means of functioning effectively within the parameters selected. Leadership is inherently radical, and may arise from those in subordinate positions. Because it is based on personal charisma, it can be deeply flawed at a logical or moral level. By polarizing the functions of decision-making and implementation into these two extremes, the traditional approach to governance makes synthesis of both skill sets difficult."

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