London Met MBA Leadership & Strategic Management blog

A person who motivate & inspire a team can be described as a leader. (Northouse, 2013). Leaders focus on direction, align people, motivate & inspire. (Kotter, 2001) Managers are people who achieve goals by performing some key functions such as; planning & budgeting, organizing & staffing, problem solving & controlling. Leaders focus on direction, align people, motivate & inspire. (Kotter, 2001) Difference between manager & the leader are shown in below grid. Manager Leader Plan & budget Set direction & develop the vision Develop process steps & set timelines Develop strategic plans & achieve the vision Displays impersonal attitude about the vision and goals Displays very passionate attitude about the vision and goals Takes lower risk to solve problems Takes higher risk to solve problems Identifies & solve problems Motivate the team to overcome the pr...

Introduction Leadership had become very important topic in now days. In modern world people are very keen on leadership & also interested in improving their leadership skills. Hence organizations & individuals spend more resources to do researches about leadership. Leadership is a topic that is being developed through decades & in different decades leadership has defined in different ways. Based on needs & wants of the people generations to generation leadership has defined in many ways. 1900 – 1929 During this period leadership was very much equal to the power & respect. At that time leadership is about the ability to influence. (Moore, 1927) According to the definition those days’ people who had power were considered as leaders. Those leaders had delegated power & because of that public accepted them as leaders. 1930s In 1930s leadership was about the characteristics & the personality of a person. Someone who had the ability to chan...