A manager ensures that the system works in the manner it is expected to work. He is the custodian of the rules and regulations in an organization and it is his job to enforce them. A manager is concerned with efficiency.
While the manager is concerned with efficiency, the leader is concerned with efficiency as well as effectiveness. If “efficiency is doing a thing right, effectiveness is doing the right thing”, says Peter Drucker, the management Guru.
A leader is one who has vision. He has charisma, by virtue of which, he inspires “ordinary persons to perform extraordinarily”. People follow someone only when - he has something that they admire. A leader has followers. The manager does not have followers of that type - generally.
A Manager mostly says “yes” to get cooperation from subordinates – and he is usually afraid to say “no”, for fear of non-cooperation. The leader can say “no” and still get cheerful and enthusiastic cooperation. The followers would willingly do anything that their leader tells them to do - they do not need any extra patting on the back to do so. They like him; they trust him. He is their role-model.
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