Leadership is more or less important than management?

Answer 1

Leadership is not the most important. It is not also less important. It is like, "It is important but not to the extent that is it the most."

In our daily lives, with different events and different context, a person's leadership should be flexible and the approach you should implement should differ.

There's Authoritarian (Autocratic), where you decide what how the group should do things; Participative (Democratic), where you ask others their suggestions on what and how to do things; and Delegative (Laissez-Faire), where you let your team work things their own way with little or no guidance.

In other times, leadership is not needed. Sometimes, it's Management that is necessary.

If you already told your members what to do and how to do it, and they are not making it right or not making the way it is expected, Management is the appropriate approach.

It [Management] is the guiding of people to do things the right way. This makes leadership not the most important and not the less important, too.

They should go together to attain success with your goals.

"Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things." - Peter F. Drucker