The Difference Between Leaders and Managers

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1. The difference between leaders and managers: * A manager can learn to become a leader, but the difference is a natural born leader can influence their subordinates with motivation and inspiration to achieve their goals. Leaders evoke a person to put in the extra ounce of effort and inner desire to assist at all levels of effort. * A manager that doesn’t have leadership abilities will resort to just managing the day to day goals to meet business objectives, by exercising their authority so their subordinates will get the job done because they have to, not because they want to. * People trust the judgment, have respect for, and have confidence in a person with strong leadership abilities. A person who isn’t trusted and may not be respected can still be a manager but only based on their authority level. Management in conjunction with leadership is ideal. The explorers in this case were all leaders, most were great leaders, but one (Robert Scott) had his leadership abilities questioned. All the explorers in this case had a variety of strengths, and some weaknesses, but for the majority they were all courageous, ambitious, and persuasive enough for groups of men at that time to follow their lead into extremely dangerous expeditions. Robert Scott was the exception for being a good leader, he was a terrible planner, made poor decisions, had poor communication, and therefore did not inspire confidence in his men. Scott’s leadership abilities were questioned, and in the end all of Scott’s men paid dearly for his leadership shortcomings, because they died of starvation on their way back from their expedition. 2. Five traits that are thought to predict effective leaders: 1. Self awareness (The ability to understand your own mood) 2. Self-regulation ( The ability to control disruptive impulses) 3. Motivation (A passion for work) 4.

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