What Leaders Really Do?

By: John P. Kotter

 Article focuses on
THE IDEA IN BRIEF

What is Leadership
Why Leadership
Management Overview

THE IDEA IN PRACTICE

Similarities between Management and Leadership

Difference between Management and Leadership

References from Forbes, Business Insider and TED Talk

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What is leadership?
 Leadership and management are two distinctive and
complementary systems of actions.
Managers promote stability and leaders press for change.
Corporations actively seek out people with leadership
potential and expose them to career experiences designed to
develop that potential.
Strong leadership with weak management is no better.
An individual can not be good at both leading and managing.
When companies understand the difference between
leadership and management, the can begin to groom their top
people to provide both.
 The real challenge is
to combine
leadership and strong
management and use
each to balance the
other.
Difference Between Management
and Leadership
 Management Leadership

Coping with Complexity Coping with Change

Planning and Budgeting Setting Direction

Organize and Staffing Aligning People

Control and Solving Motivation

Problems
 Planning and Organizing and
budgeting versus staffing versus
direction setting aligning people
Create an organizational
Setting a target, structure and set of jobs
Manager establish steps and with qualified individuals,
allocate resources. communicate plan and
monitor.
Aligning means
Develop a vision for
communicating the new
Leader future along with
direction to achieve its
strategies.
vision
Control and problem
solving versus
motivating people
Monitoring results,
planning and organizing
to solve problems.
Keeping people moving
in the right direction
despite major obstacles
to change
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Setting a Direction versus Planning and
Budgeting
Function of leadership is to produce change.
Setting the direction of that change is fundamental to
leadership.
The crucial element of vision is not its originality instead its
ability to be translated into realistic competition.
Developing a good vision is not magic but willingness of
broad based thinkers.
Planning is a complement to setting s direction which
provides focus
Organizing and Staffing Aligning People
Creating Organizational
Structure
Setting of Jobs to
Achieve Plan
Staffing the Jobs with
Qualified People
Design Challenge
Communicating New
Direction to People
People are those who
Understand the Vision
Credibility
Communication
Challenge
More Empowerment
Controlling and Problem Solving Motivating

Keep Moving People in

Monitoring Result vs
Right Direction
Plan
Formally Network by
mean of Reports and Informally Network
Meeting etc.
Major Obstacles to
Identifying Deviation Change
Appealing to Human
Planning and Organizing Needs , Value and
to Solve the Problem. Emotions

Low Motivation High Motivation

VIDEO Business Insider
 Culture of Leadership
Leadership culture is the self-reinforcing web of beliefs,
practices, patterns and behaviors. It's the way things are done
the way people interact, make decisions and influence others.
Leaders' own conscious and unconscious beliefs drive decisions
and behaviors, and repeated behaviors become
leadership practices.
Video Forbes
 Conclusion
Identify Similarities and Differences b/w Management and
Leadership

Balance between Leadership and Management

Importance of Leadership

leadership and management are two distinctive and

complementary systems of action.