Leadership Versus Management

There are distinctive qualities associated with management and leadership that provide different strengths for the organization.

Leader Qualities                                                 

• Visionary
• Passionate
• Creative
• Flexible
• Inspiring
• Innovative
• Courageous
• Imaginative
• Experimental
• Initiates change
• Personal Power

Manager Qualities

• Rational
• Consulting
• Persistent
• Problem-Solving
• Tough-minded
• Analytical
• Structured
• Deliberate
• Authoritative
• Stabilizing
• Position Power

Management and leadership reflect two different sets of qualities and skills that frequently overlap within a single individual.  Ideally a manager develops a balance of both manager an leader qualities.