LEADING vs MANAGING

* Leaders maintain inner perceptiveness that they can use in their relationships with others. Managers prefer to working with others and are collaborative.
* Leaders focus on what events and decisions mean to participants. Managers focus on how things get done and maintained controlled, rational and equitable structures.
* Leaders attract strong feelings of identity and difference. Managers attempt to reconcile differences, seek compromises and establish a balance of power.
* Leaders are imaginative, passionate, non-confirming risk takers. Managers are tough minded, hardworking, tolerant and have good-will towards others.
* Leaders have personal attitudes towards goals. They provide a vision that changes the way people think about what is desirable, possible and necessary. Managers adopt impersonal attitudes towards goals. They decide and therefore deeply tied to organizations culture.
* Leaders first use their vision to excite people and only then develop choices. They focus people on shared ideas and raise their expectations. Managers establish strategies and make decisions by combining people and ideas. They are good at reaching comprises and mediating conflicts between opposing values and perspectives.
* Leaders report that their lives are marked by a continual struggle to find some sense of order. Managers report that their adjustments to life have been straight forward and that their lives have been more or less peaceful since birth.
* Leaders display a life development process which focuses on personal mastery. Managers display a life development process which focuses on socialization.
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