The emphasis on teams added new leadership responsibilities to the tasks of organizational managers. Besides, the widespread use of downsizing to flatten organizations also brought new challenges to organizational mangers. Organizations have asked for more creativity, innovation, and productivity from the general work force and placed more leadership demands on the managers. To succeed in keeping the company abreast with the changes in the environment, the leadership development needs of managers in the corporation are necessary. There is a common belief that being a manager is different from being leader.
Leaders are people who do the right things and managers are people who do things right.
Leaders are interested in direction, vision, goals, objectives, intention, purpose, and effectiveness-the right things. A leader may not be present at all times but effectively gets a word done by sharing with his workers the knowledge he already has. Managers are required to spend time with their people to accomplish a task. Leaders think about empowerment and not control. They do not steal responsibilities from people.