
Leaders and managers apply different approaches to achieve their goals.

They evaluate success by seeing if the team has achieved what was expected. Unlike leaders, managers do not challenge the status quo. A manager is responsible for completing four critical functions: planning, organising, leading, and controlling. In contrast, management is about delegating responsibilities and getting people to follow the rules to reduce risk and deliver predictable outcomes. They measure success by looking at the team’s achievements and learning. Interestingly, leaders do what they do to pursue innovation, not as an obligation.


Leaders motivate others to achieve something new and better. In simple words, leadership is about taking risks and challenging the status quo. That’s how the Oxford Dictionary defines leadership. “The action of leading a group of people or an organisation.”
