Who is more effective at strategic decision-making, Leaders or Manager? Leadership and Management employ different skills and methods to decision making and obtaining goals. Some feel both have different methods; however, achieve the same results. Some argue there is no difference between the two. Other organizations may feel one skill or decision-making method is more effective over the other. Organizations that foster both leadership and management decision making methods are more successful than those that only rely on a traditional management style of decision making.
Leadership can have a profound impact on strategic decision-making and the lives of individuals, communities, competition, markets, society, and culture. Leaders inspire and motivate people to a cause. Leaders have positive character and ethics, and their ability to be a good leader has typically developed and grown from their life experiences. Leaders can inspire a nation to follow, an individual to change, communities to band together, lead a company to defeat the competition and a culture to change.
Managers want something. Managers get the tasks and the goals accomplished with systems, procedures, structure, process, and policy. Managers get results through enforcing the guidelines through implementing systems, best practices, standards, rules, and processes (Watson, 1983). Managers manage tasks, and processes, projects, systems, deliverables, and staff. Managers provide structure for individuals, communities, society, and culture. Managers run the established play book for competition and strategic decision making, often making decisions based on structure and guidelines.
When it comes to strategic decision-making leaders are more apt to driving the strategy decisions, and managers are more apt for helping to carrier out the strategic plan to execute the strategy. A leader who has been placed in a Win -Lose situation will be more apt to identify the issues in the true face of reality, make the hard decisions, absorb the consequences and willing to support their people and work along side of them until the missions is accomplished. Leaders are inclined to make wok exciting by encouraging an organization style that is intuitive, highly personal and tied in closely to the “carrots” that motivate key players to perform (Watson, 1983).
Leaders will make sure their key people are taken care of, ensuring they have what they need, and leaders will be there alongside them with them during difficulty to get the job accomplished. A famous example is an Air Force general was retiring and during the retirement ceremony his troops were lined up outside the tent where the general was standing inside. During the ceremony it began to rain. The general stopped the ceremony, ran to get his raincoat, and stood outside in the rain with his troops during the remainder of the ceremony.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple was named the World’s greatest leader by Fortune magazine. Tim was a former operations manager for Apple and took the helm following Steve Jobs, and had the challenge of being a leader in the shallow of Steve’s reputation. Tim grew into this own strength as a leader by focusing on the strategy of focusing on the existing strengths of the organization and a lack of interest in micromanaging. Tim faced a number of challenges and took continued criticisms from the media, showed his leadership in his words of “I am not running for office. I don’t need your vote. I have to feel myself doing what is right. I think that is a much better way to live”. Tim has democratic management style looking for consensus among leaders for strategic decisions, is an advocate of human rights, using the strengths of Apple to grow in the market and giving back to the community. Tim was big into philanthropy and had a plan to give his wealth away to give back to the community (Gamble J., Peteraf M., Thompson A., Strickland L. 2018).
References:
Gamble J., Peteraf M., Thompson A., Strickland L. (2018). Charting a Company’s Direction, Its Vision, Mission, Objectives, and Strategy.
Khan, H. (2020). Stop Managing and Start Leading. Retrieved from lbry.tv: https://lbry.tv/@BusinessBalls:9/Stop-Managing-and-Start-Leading-by-Hamza-Khan-:b?r=4C7183PFXyVQhgoDpSvTHumsqoXrgADC
Sinic S. (2020). Management versus Leadership. Retrieved from: https://lbry.tv/@Business:5/Management-vs.-Leadership:7?r=4C7183PFXyVQhgoDpSvTHumsqoXrgADC
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