Leadership, management and a false dichotomy
In a letter to Malaysia鈥檚 The Star Online, management consultant Dr Ranjit Singh Malhi takes issue with the widely-held distinction between managers and leaders. Though many theorists draw a line between effectiveness (the bailiwick of leaders) and efficiency (a manager鈥檚 wheelhouse), Dr. Malhi points to work by Desautels Professor Henry Mintzberg, who positions a manager in a broader leadership role that embraces behavioural and non-behavioural issues, as opposed to the narrower spectrum that leadership generally covers. Further, Dr. Malhi states that 鈥淎 high-performance manager is almost always a good leader. On the other hand, an effective leader is not necessarily a high-performance manager鈥�
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