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Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.
Sep 30, 2025
The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.
Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet
Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.