Leadership vs. Management - Differences
What's the difference between management and leadership? Do you think they are different or the same? There are many roles in an organization, like parents as to children, a CEO as to managers, these people take their responsibilities to operate the entire organization. There must be one in charge of the leadership and the other in charge of the management, and they can not live without others.
The founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, is a person with creativity, innovation, curiosity, and leadership. Every time, he can catch people's eye when publishing a new product of an iPhone with surprising functions and persuade people to buy it. But what makes iPhone from Jobs' idea into a real one and be produced and delivered to a buyer, is the managers' efforts. They are separated into different parts with their functions, and they have to be well organized, with clear goals to finish their jobs. Includes resource management, design, marketing, customer service, etc. Every step needs the cooperation of each department. Their efforts are making Jobs' ideas into practice in a perfect and attractive product, also profitable.
As we can know, without a leader, the organization could lose its goal and be unable to break through a handicap. However, without the manager, the organization could unable to finish anything. Leaders and managers play a different roles, and they are interchangeable.