MANAGERS &

LEADERS
- Are they different?
 Executive summary
Tough, persistent, smart, analytical, tolerant and of good will-
qualities wanted in the best manager.

Highly valued managers dont inflame employees passion

and imagination or stimulate the change the whole
organization needs.

Zaleznik challenged the traditional view of management in

1977.

It omits the essential leadership element.

Managers and leaders are different.

Organization need both to excel.

 Zaleznik suggested two ways to develop
leaders

1. Avoid over-reliance on peer-learning

situations.

2. Cultivate one to one relationship between

mentors and the apprentices.
Key concepts
Attitude towards goals
Managers Leaders
Impersonal passive Shape rather than
outlook respond

Alter mood, evoke

Goals arises out of images and
necessities not expectations
desires
Change whats
desirable and possible

Set company direction

Conception of work
Managers Leaders
Negotiate and Develop fresh
coerce approaches

Design Increase options

compromises
Seek risk
Avoid risk
Relation with others
Managers Leaders
Minimal emotional Empathic
involvement
Focus on substance
Focus on the of events
process
Interact with others
Communicate giving
ambiguous signals
Sense of self
Managers Leaders
Existing institution Alter human and
economic
Feel part of relationships
organization
Feel separate from
organization
IMPLICATIONS &
APPLICATIONS IN
INDIA
 2010 study by
Harvard Business
Publishing

2012
ManpowerGroup
Talent Shortage
Survey
 Booz and company forecast that in 2017 all
the fortune 500 companies will be unfilled
or filled by people who are underprepared
for the jobs.
 SHIFTING REALITIES
Demographic dividend

Faster growing economy

Operating model top down manner

 Indian business leaders have focused on
developing technology rather than people.

Insufficient training for new recruits.

Limited variety of experience at the top.

A lack of succession planning.

 What to do?
Leadership programs

Talent management

HR a key participant
Contemporary examples
from business and non-
business areas
Ratan Tata
Desire to lead

Risk taking

Ambitious

Compassionate and
empathic
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Leaders Ignite the
minds of Other

Leaders humble
themselves

Leadersare
Visionary
Thank you