Managers Tell and Leaders Sell (by Abdulrahman Al-Deijy)

Today authors, successful entrepreneurs and academics are stressing on the fact that any employee in a leading position should be a leader instead of being a manager. However, this idea can be criticized since organizations in many cases need more managers than leaders. So, in order to know when the organization need to hire either leaders or managers, the organization should first be aware of the difference between a manager and a leader. Therefore, the following points have demystified the difference between them: " Managers Tell, Leaders Sell " First and foremost, managers are considered to be a great reference to know the clear steps and actions to get the job done, but they tend not to mention the reason for performing a specific task. On the other hand, leaders always sell the benefits of why we are doing what we are doing. And by doing that leaders are competent in avoiding project fatigue syndrome in which the team get overwhelm...