In
management there is decision making,In leadership there is
understanding why one takes such decisions.
Management is action centric,
Leadership is purpose centric. Leadership keeps community building in the
center, Management keeps systems in the center. A Leader
inspires people,
A Manager uses people.
A Leader empowers people, A Manager sees people as great resources for increased
productivity.
A Leader is human sensitive,
A Manager is
efficiency sensitive.
A Leader delivers people,
A
Manager delivers results. A Leader represents Gods compassion, trust
and empowerment,
A Manager represents God’s discipline, precautions and
control. In life we need to be both a manager and a
leader. When subordinates misuse the compassion aspect of God, the
discipline aspect of God rolls in.
A challenging
situation arises when a manager has to take a decision
with regards to a subordinate who he trusts and has rewarded many times
previously , and that subordinate is caught in
indiscipline.
The subordinate has got the reward for good work,
but he has misused the affection of the manager, then the manger
for the upkeep of order is forced to take a harsh decision. This is painful but there is no solution other than a harsh one If he does not take a harsh decision, many
subordinates may follow suit. This was the very purpose why Krishna
made Arjuna hear the Bhagavad gita -because as the executor of
krishna s decision Arjuna had to deal with his most
loved people not dealing wth them would only add to
the suffering of more people, and eliminating them would add to
Arjuna 's suffering. By the grace of God Arjuna with great difficulty
chose to punish those whose eyes he would never look into because of
respect, because he had taken the role of manager on behalf of
Krishna he had to be extremely harsh with them to the extent of
awarding them with capital punishment. In business a
businessman cannot afford compassion towards his employees when they fail to
produce good results. He has to make a choice to exist in
business or to exit business because of sentiments towards wrong
doers. A businessman man needs to be charitable to use his
resources for good reasons but if he were to be charitable towards
inefficiency that would deprive him of his wealth and of his
charitable disposition.
This works In Vedanta too, God is impartial
whether you are his devotee or not -in regards to judging your material side of
life. God may award special mukti to his devotees but only after
they go through whatever they deserve to for the material mistakes they
have made. Jaya Vijaya - When they offeneded the great sages,
externally God gave them punishment- to show to the world and
internally God gave them special privilege but the privilege
was not in the business of maintenance of creation.
The choice
is ours to be manager when we are manager, and to be a leader when
we are a leader, mixing the two can only bring a disastrous
end, or beginning of the end of our role as a manager.
Because our boss knows the system properly and will fire us.
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