I understand that most of the people reading this will have a different definition for leadership, in fact as Stogdill (1974, p.7) pointed out there are many different definitions of leadership, almost as many as the number of people who tried to define it, but in this context we will look at leadership in terms of power and dominance that exists between leaders and followers. Leaders have the ability to influence, motivate and control people towards achieving a goal. Leadership as a process is very similar to management, however managers tend to operate within existing ways of thinking, whereas leaders often challenge those ways and look for new approaches.
Personally I believe leadership is very much about bringing about a better future, so as leaders they must make use of the resources, have innovative management to motivate employees and make use of the creativity within their staff or even themselves, to increase profits and ensure success.
I will end todays post with a video which compares management against leadership, it is a quick interesting one so, have a watch and leave your comments below.
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