Managers and Leaders: Are they different?

1. Managers and Leaders:Are they different? Author: Abraham Zaleznik Presentation By: Shengbo Zhang

2. About the Author Abraham Zaleznik (1924-2011) was a leading scholar and teacher in the field of organizational psychodynamics and the psychodynamics of leadership. At the time of his death he was a Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School where he taught for four decades. He was a practicing psychoanalyst and the author of 16 books.

3. Introduction • Managers and leader are two different animals. • Leaders, like artists, tolerate chaos and lack of structure. They keep answers in suspense ,preventing premature closure on important issues. • Managers seek order, control, and rapid resolution of problem

4. The difference between the Managers and leaders • Attitudes towards goals • Conceptions of work • Relations of work • Sense of self

5. Attitudes towards goals • Managers always take an impersonal, and have the passive outlook, goals arise out of necessities, but not desires. • Leaders always take a personal, and have an active out look, shape rather than respond to ideas.

6. Conceptions of work • Managers usually negotiate and coerce, balance opposing views, design compromises, limit choices, avoid the risk. • Leaders usually develop the fresh approaches to problems, increase the options, turn ideas into exciting images

7. Relations of work • Managers always prefer working with people, but maintain minimal emotional involvement, and lack empathy • Leaders always attached to some ideas, and relate to others ideas, relate to others directly, intuitively, empathetically

8. Sense of self • The managersusually come from the perpetuating and strengthening existing institutions, and feel part of the organization seriously • The leadersusually come from the struggle to profoundly alter human and economic relationships, so they always feel separate from the organization.

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