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The Difference between Leadership and Management Name Institutional Affiliation Abstract There is an ongoing debate concerning the superiority of managers and leaders in organizations nowadays. While some firms prefer management, others choose leadership instead. It is the reason as to why managers and leaders seem as an all-in-one assets. However, they are different based on their traits and workability. Managers have the ability to organize the firm by using available resources and investing in employees to meet the expectations of productivity. Contrarily, leaders are visionary individuals who capitalize on every moment to ensure maximum productiveness in organizations through inventions and innovations. With such differences, it is not advisable to intermix management and leadership as standard terms in the corporate world. However, for the success of any enterprise in the current competitive and unpredictable market, there is a need to have managerial leaders (managers who are leaders). By combining the two, one complements the other to ensure an organized administrative outlook that overcomes weaknesses by exploiting strengths of the organization. It leads to adoption and implementation of the vision, followed by its management to necessitate the productivity of existing and new operations. Keywords: management, leadership, traits, workability, managerial leaders The Difference between Leadership and Management Does active management lead to effective leadership? It is the question that troubles many modern-day organizations as they strive to maintain their focus when pursuing their set objectives. Even so, Stacey (2012) finds that every
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