 One question that fairly commonly comes up when we're talking about leadership is What's the difference between leadership and management? Is there a difference and and the truth is yes There is while while managers can be leaders and leaders can be managers and both can be Effective at each of those things. There really is a difference between leadership and management So let's take a few minutes and just examine what those differences are again keeping in mind that both are are Necessary both are valid and both are important in the function of group organization But there is a slight difference between the two. So let's take a look at those things So when we look at management versus leadership first of all, we need to understand that management is an organizational construct Management is an organizational construct. It is created by the organization. It's something that the organization builds and institutes and authorizes and creates right the structure of Management of placing one person over another and that's an organizational construct as opposed to leadership, which is a human element that's a human element right people Don't follow managers necessarily they may listen to their managers and do with their managers say but they follow leaders because leaders have this Human element. There's a human interaction. They don't drive their power Just from the structure of an organization and the construct of that organization But there's a human element there as well outside of that organizational construct Leadership and management are different in that regard another way. They're different is that management is about the efficiency of process Right management is about doing something the right way and doing it that way The most effective way the most efficient way and doing it that way in in repeated Format and repeating that over time and doing it kind of the same way every time if necessary, right? So it's about the efficiency of process about doing what needs done doing it the right way and doing it as well as possible Leadership though is about the development of potential It's about seeing not what's there But what could be there and leading people toward that something perhaps better and greater, right? So it's about that development of potential not the efficiency of what we're already doing But the potential of what we could be doing and what we could Could could Accomplish if we work at it together. That's what leadership is Okay management is about the present. It's about what's happening right now. It's looking at things What is happening right now? What are we doing? Are we doing it the right way and we're looking at it though in this moment? Whereas leadership is about the future. Okay, we just kind of discussed that the leadership is about the potential here So it's about looking at the future seeing where we want to be and what's it going to take to get us there So management is about the present. It's about right now Whereas leadership is about the future Another difference is that management is about supervision It's about making sure that people are doing what they should be doing when they should be doing it and And and helping them to do that, but it's about supervision right whereas leadership is about vision It's about seeing where we could be again looking into the future looking at the future trying to accomplish something there and Leading people toward that vision as opposed to Supervision of making sure they're doing things appropriately and properly right now in this moment So you can kind of see leadership and management do work together in many in many many ways They're important. They're important partners and it's important that we have good Management in our leaders and good leadership from our managers as well They're very very important, but they are different and so even if you're an effective manager It behooves you to to become a better leader and vice versa, right? They do work together, but we need to have both in order for both to be as effective as they possibly can If you have questions about the difference between management and leadership, please email me Let me know I'd be happy to chat with them about it there in the meantime I hope this has been helpful in this discussion in terms of Discovering the differences in the way they work in partnership, but also the differences between management and leadership