Leader vs Manager- Difference between management and leadership?

A managerial culture emphasizes rationality and control. Whether his or her energies are directed toward goals, resources, organization structures, or people, a manager is a problem solver. Managers embrace process, seek stability and control, and instinctively try to resolve problems quickly—sometimes before they fully understand a problem’s significance. Leaders, in contrast, tolerate problems and lack of structure and are willing to delay closure in order to understand the issues more fully.

Managers are paid to get things done (they are subordinates too), often within tight constraints of time and money. They thus naturally pass on this work focus to their subordinates. But telling people what to do does not inspire them to follow you. You have to appeal to them, showing how following them will lead to their hearts' desire. They must want to follow you enough to stop what they are doing and perhaps walk into danger and situations that they would not normally consider risking.


A manager tries to get maximum benefits of the available resources. He/She relies on high efficiency and productivity of existing resource. A leader on other hand has a creative mind. He/She is an inventor and is constantly thinking of changing and improving the way things are done. He/She can sacrifice efficiency or productivity for some time to promote creativity and hence finding novel unconditional ways. A leader is more risk savvy then the usual manager. A leader is always on look out for new ideas. He/She looks at his/her resources like people, machinery and computer systems in a different way then the manager. Manager aims to extract maximum value from these resources unlike a leader who aims to get different more valuable output from the same resources.

It is simple. Leader leads his followers to a direction set by the group. Manager manages his subordinates to a given objective.

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A Leader must have "The Power of Speaking With Purpose and Vision". Shel Leannne (2009) in her book entitle, SAY IT LIKE OBAMA, highlighting 7 characteristics of Obama great leadership skills when delivering his speech:

1. Effective Use of body Language & Voice

2. Establishing Common Ground

3. Speaking to Audience Concerns : Winning Hearts & Minds

4. Convening Vision Through Personalization & Words That Resonate

5. Driving Points Home

6. Excellent Persuasion Techniques

7. Building to a Crescendo & Leaving a Strong Last Impression

Certainly a manager does not need such an extreme communication skills like Obama. What a manager needs to have just the basic skills of Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling. That's the different.