Management and Leadership

MANAGEMENT is about coping with complexity.
Good management brings about order and stabilty by formuating plans and objectives,designing structures and procedures, monitoring results against plans, and taking corrective actions when necessary.



LEADERSHIP is about coping with change.
Leadership involves recognising and articulating the need to significantly alter the direction and operation of the organisation, aligning people to the new direction, and motivating them to work together to overcome hurdles produced by the change and to realise new objectives.

A good manager may not be a good leader and vice versa a good leader may not be a good manager. It is not often that we find both traits ie strong management and strong leadership traits in an individual. It is therefore common and wise for a good manager to be supplemented by an assistant with strong leadershp trait and a good leader to be supplemented by an assistant with strong management trait. A good combination of management and leadership in a team will definitely result in excellence.

Dr. Mahathir is one individual who is strong in both traits, really an exceptional case, thus his excellence as a Prime Minister. How about Abdullah Badawi?