Leadership and Management
28 Jul 2020Much ink has been spilled over the relationship or dichotomy between management and leadership. But even still there are managers and leaders who don’t appreciate the difference or haven’t taken the time to.
It occurred to me that it might be more digestable in tabular form. The left represents what leaders do or what leadership is, the left what managers do or what management is.
| Leadership | Management |
|---|---|
| Investment | Accounting |
| Creative | Administrative |
| Design | Engineering |
| Entrepreneurial | Corporate |
| Vision | Visibility |
| Discovering | Optimizing |
| Innovating | Imitating |
| Actualization | Realization |
| Narrative | Facts |
| Zero-to-one | One-to-many |
| Risk | Certainty |
| Transformational | Incremental |
| General | Specific |
| Values | Metrics |
| Unreasonable | Reasonable |
| Intuitive | Logical |
| Subtle | Obvious |
| Long-term | Short-term |
| High-level | Low-level |
| Effective | Efficient |
| Decisions | Implementations |
| Variance | Bias |
| Truth | Precision |
| Ideas | Execution |
| Chaotic | Ordered |