What is the difference between a manager and a leader?
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A manager is a person who handles, controls, or directs, a business or enterprise, controls resources and expenditures, is in charge of the business affairs and of the training and performance of an athlete. \n\nA leader is a person who rules or guides or inspires others.\n\nA manager is more bossy and a leader inspires respect and guide his staff to success involving them.
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Generally, in the U.S., CEO and President can be quite similar.  In the case where there are two senior executives that share responsibilities in large companies or closely held family companies the CEO is usually more senior than the President.  Outside the U.S. the term Managing Director or "MD" is used.  General Manager is often used to describe any senior manager that has Profit and Loss or P&L responsibility.  This might even be of a division of a larger company.
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My boss right now is horrible because she is a punk! She lets her assistant basically set her mood for the day, and tell her what to do. I feel that any true leader (boss, supervisor, manager,...etc) should truly lead in their position not be lead.
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Big difference, the controller is in charge of all operations, the accounting manager is just in charge of accounting.
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1. Good communicator - keeps you aware of what is going on in the business, and is very clear when giving direction\n\n2. Non-threatening management style.  Managers who threaten are trying to do what's best for ~their~ career, not yours.  I'd want a manager with a collaborative style, who is committed to developing me and helping me get promoted.\n\n3. A leader who rewards good work with new challenges and opportunities.  If I do well at something, I want my manager to tell me I did well, and give me some say in what I do next - and help develop areas I want to develop.
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I think it's a little bit of both.  It's a science because you have to manage finances, budget, efficiences but it's an art as well because you manage people and you can't treat people as just numbers on a ledger.  An effective manager is also a leader and leadership is definitely an art.
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If you picture business as a large group of people all involved with the task of cutting down a path through a forest for the purpose of making way for a road. Up front, you have all the workers with axes, and saws busy cutting down trees. Good managers will count how many trees their people have cut each day, ensure they have the required tools, ensure their axes and saws are sharp and make sure they get paid. A leader is anyone in that group who has the courage to climb one of those trees, look around, look at the proposed roadmap, and if things don't look good, a leader has the courage to say, "Hey, we are cutting in the wrong direction.!"
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Sometimes, leaders are born. Most often though, leaders are made, through various ways. Sometimes, leaders are made because of a death, sometimes by other circumstances out of their control.
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SOME LEADERS CAN CHANGE THIER LEADERSHIP STYLE WHILE SOME CANT\nBUT IN COMPETITIVE WORLD ONLY FLEXIBLE LEADER CAN SUCCED
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If they are good managers they don't. If they are successful, competetant and confident they know they are only as good as their employees. That's why good managers realize they actually work for you _ to be a point of escalation, to help resolve a problem, to get you on a good career path.  Lousy Managers, are threatened by good employees and that's where you get that disconnect. They want an escalation to make you look bad, or take over a problem because youcouldn't handle it.
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well functional areas of management cannot be explained in one or two words, an example could be given, as if your was wants to deliver so meting immediately and you can't someone to bring it, as a manager you're gonna do the work of a messenger, or in simple be flexible in terms of management, no one task is definite, and there is no best way but a better way. And what may work here doesn't work there, as in human being and situation it varies. got it
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management is to make dicissions and administrate the work.\nadministrator arrange things, but never have absulute authority to take dicission.\nadministrator is lower rank than manager.and then come the supervisor.
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Typically, management refers to providing direction to the organization and the people in it.  \n\nAdministration normally refers to the support functions of an organization, such as payroll, benefits, supplies, purchasing and similar things required to allow the rest of the organization to get on with their jobs.
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if your a logistical person, good at organising things but not so keen on disciplining other go for higher management. Strangely the psychological requirements for being a good upper level manager is the same as nursing. Problem solving and looking after about 15 things.\n\nlower level management is more people skills, less problem skills.\n\nTechnology?  hmm, if you like designing things and have a good imagination, so so on the maths go for industrial design or architecture.\n\nIndustrial designers do what i imagined engineers did\nengineers do lower level management
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Efforts and positive work ethic don't go unnoticed.  Managers come from two different schools of thought though.  It's either positive-reinforcement or negative-reinforcement.  Working for the latter tends to suck but they drive results just the same.  At the end of the day if you're doing a good job for either one they'll take care of you.
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The are interchangable terms, but organizing is more about resource allocation and adminstration is more about resource control, management includes both plus coordination
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In management, you are studying the "nuts and bolts" of how to manage a business.  (Hence the name "business management," I suppose.)\n\nIn organizational leadership, you are studying how to inspire and motivate followers, to develop a vision for an organization, etc.  It is geared more toward executive levels of leadership.