Learning leadership from management
In the process of learning leadership, I have a very confusing define of leadership. The book defines leadership as social influence. But why do we learn social influence in MBA program. I have read some books about leadership, but none of them actually told me what leadership is. All the books cover what leaders do. It is relatively unhelpful because they didn’t tell me what leadership really is. The best way to be a good car mechanic is not to learn what other mechanics do, but study what cars are. So I connect leadership with management. I would like to study the role of leadership in Management. Management is the spirit of business process. The purpose of good management is to make plan, strategic and setting short-term goals, organize the resources of the company, control the daily operation and delegate to employees, lead the market. Management has so many aspects that leadership is also one of its parts. What’s the difference between leadership and management? What’s more important to an organization?
The very thing that most people believe is that leadership and management are not the same things. * "To manage means to bring about, to accomplish, to have charge of or responsibility for, to conduct." * "Leading is influencing, guiding in a direction, course, action, opinion. The distinction is crucial."
-Warren Bennis
Warren Bennis is one of the nation's foremost authorities on leadership. He described the difference between management and leadership from behavior. From his definition, I concluded that managers are persons selected by the organization to operate management activities and assume management function so as to achieve organization goals. Leaders are kinds of social role who could lead the leadership activities. In other word, they could achieve the goal of organization within special management –