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Management vs Leadership: The Difference Explained

 , updated on April 26, 2016
Management is the practice of directing and controlling resources. Leadership is the practice of influencing and motivating people. The two disciplines are interrelated in the sense that most managers require leadership skills and most leaders manage things.
Definitions
ManagementDirecting and controlling resources, practices and processes to achieve a goal.
LeadershipInfluencing and motivating people to achieve a goal.

Examples

Managers may direct people from a supervision and administrative perspective. They may also manage processes and resources such as technologies or assets. Leadership is completely devoted to strategy and people related activities such as tackling resistance to change.
Examples
ManagementPeople
Processes
Operations
Technology
Projects
Budgets
Assets
LeadershipPeople
Communities
Change
Performance
Strategy
Tactics

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Action Plan
Approaches
Asset Management
Assumptions
Authority
Benchmarking
Budget Planning
Business Management
Business Models
Business Operations
Capabilities
Capability Analysis
Catfish Management
Change
Change Management Metrics
Change Strategy
Communication
Contingency Planning
Controls
Cost Benefit Analysis
Creative Direction
Culture
Decision Making
Delegation
Employee Relations
Estimates
Ethics
Executive Management
Facilitation
Feasibility Study
Financial Controls
Forecasting
Gap Analysis
Goal Setting
Governance
Heliotropic Effect
Human Resources
Influencing
Internal Customers
IT Management
Knowledge
KPIs
Leadership
Lessons Learned
Management
Management Accounting
Management Analysis
Management Design
Management Functions
Management Goals
Management Improvement
Management Plan
Management Process
Management Tasks
Market Analysis
MBO
Metrics
Metrics
Mission & Vision
Nudge Theory
Objectives
Onboarding
Operating Model
Operations Analysis
Optimization
Org Structure
Organizing Principle
Performance Issue
Performance Management
Planning
Politics
Prioritization
Problems
Process
Projects
Quality
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
Quality Management
Requirements
Risk
Service Management
Strategy
Strengths
Styles
Team Culture
Team Management
Team Objectives
Teams
Theory
Transformation
Transparency
Types
Work Quality
Workplace Privacy
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