The differences between leadership and management are often discussed. To my mind, all managers require leadership skills but, while all leaders would benefit from management skills, not all require them. Another issue arises in that leadership has both direction and destination (time/place) aspects as well as inspiration and motivation (people) aspects. Some managers never need to take on time/place aspects, but if/when they do, they become leaders even if their “job” is manager. All good managers need to be concerned with people aspects (above and beyond inspiration and motivation, to include training and development), and in those cases they are both managers and leaders. Where managers differ most distinctly from leaders is that they are responsible for actually getting things done (how). When a leader strays into this how aspect, they also become managers. In short, the reason it is so difficult to differentiate management from leadership is that there is often, but not always, overlap.
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