Management and Leadership

Lori L Murray
Management and Leadership 
Week 5




      Definition of management - The act or skill of controlling and making decisions about a business, department, sports team, etc. the people who make decisions about a business, department, sports team, etc. the act or process of deciding how to use something. "Management." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 2 June 2016.

     Definition of leadership - A position as a leader of a group, organization, etc. the time when a person holds the position of leader the power or ability to lead other people. "Leadership." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 2 June 2016.

     Leadership is doing the right things and it is deciding the best course of action to take. What are the things we should be doing to get us to where we want to go? What direction or course of action should we take? Where do we want to be in the end? The act of management must then follow the act of leadership. Once the best course or direction has been decided, management doing things right picks up the ball, looks at the objectives established by leadership and says, Okay, here’s the best way to get there. I would say Leaders must use some management skills and managers must use some leadership skills. But then understanding the differences and working within their basic framework can make the workplace a whole lot more productive.

    I don't think you can have one without the other. I would have to say though that management is important than leadership.Without leadership, teams and organizations slowly die as they become increasingly irrelevant in a changing world. But without management, teams and organizations collapse in a matter of days, because nothing is being delivered right now.

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                                                                    Decision


      Definition of decision a choice that you make about something after thinking about it: the result of deciding the ability to make choices quickly and confidently the particular end of a legal or official argument: a legal or official judgment. In an estimate of the situation, a clear and concise statement of the line of action intended to be followed by the commander as the one most favorable to the successful accomplishment of the assigned mission. If someone has more knowledge than me in a situation then I am going to let them make the decision if theirs is best for the group. If we then vote on that persons decision and majority rules there should be no problem.

     I recently found out we have fleas in our house we are renting and moved into last August 2015. Thank goodness we got rid of them. We have nor have had any animals since we have lived here. The tenets before us had two dogs. I read that flea eggs can live unhatched for up to a year. I asked my Landlady to pay for the exterminator and she refused to stating that I have to take care of the little things that happen and she will take care of the big stuff. Where do you draw the line. Even the exterminator agreed with me, but to no avail. The Landlady still will not pay for it.