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complex organizations. The actions described below are taken near verbatim from<br />

Kotter’s article, they are:<br />

One Contextual Issue: The Differences between Management <strong>and</strong> Leadership<br />

Management Leadership<br />

Companies manage complexity first by Leading an organization to constructive<br />

planning <strong>and</strong> budgeting, setting goals for change begins by setting a direction,<br />

the future <strong>and</strong> establishing detailed steps developing a vision <strong>of</strong> the future, along<br />

for achieving those goals, then allocating with strategies for producing the changes<br />

resources to accomplish those plans. needed to achieve that vision.<br />

Management develops the capacity to<br />

achieve its plan by organizing <strong>and</strong><br />

staffing, creating an organizational<br />

structure <strong>and</strong> set <strong>of</strong> jobs for accomplishing<br />

requirements, staffing the jobs with<br />

qualified individuals, <strong>and</strong> communicating<br />

the plan to those people, delegating<br />

responsibility for carrying out the plan,<br />

<strong>and</strong> devising systems to monitor<br />

implementation.<br />

Finally, management ensures plan<br />

accomplishment by controlling <strong>and</strong><br />

problem solving, monitoring results vs. the<br />

plan in some detail, both formally <strong>and</strong><br />

informally by means <strong>of</strong> reports, meetings,<br />

<strong>and</strong> other tools; identifying deviations<br />

from the plan; <strong>and</strong> then planning <strong>and</strong><br />

organizing to solve the problems.<br />

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The leadership activity at this stage is<br />

aligning people, that is, communicating<br />

the <strong>new</strong> direction to those who can create<br />

coalitions that underst<strong>and</strong> the vision <strong>and</strong><br />

are committed to its achievement.<br />

For leadership, achieving the vision<br />

requires motivating <strong>and</strong> inspiring,<br />

keeping people moving in the right<br />

direction, despite major obstacles to<br />

change by appealing to basic but <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

untapped human needs, <strong>value</strong>s, <strong>and</strong><br />

emotions.<br />

The two sets <strong>of</strong> actions reflect concerns with transactional leadership, which is<br />

concerned with task orientation in managerial leadership, <strong>and</strong> transformational<br />

leadership, which is more concerned with the actions <strong>of</strong> leaders related to relationships

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