Earlier in the Fall, our Executive Pastor shared this comparison between Leaders and Managers with the New Life staff. This is what it says.
Leaders vs. Managers
Leaders tend to:
- Stress relationships, principles, values and commitment
- Create and articulate a vision
- Move the organization in new directions. Prefer adaptive change
- Are unsatisfied with the status quo
- Communicate purpose, urgency and vision
- Favor taking risks and making changes
- Generate a feeling of meaning in work, it’s value and importance
- Stress organization, coordination and control
- Focus on short term achievement
- Concentrate on maximizing results from existing systems. Prefer operational change.
- Communicate directives
- Fear uncertainty and act cautiously
- Enforce fulfillment of agreements/contracts