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Question: What is the difference between leading and managing a projector? Some feel that the conductor of an orchestra is an appropriate metaphor for being a project manager. What is another metaphor? Support your answers with a quote or two from your textbook and cite your source of information.

Answer 1

1. Leadership inspires change, management manages transformation.

2. Leadership requires vision, management requires tenacity

3. Leadership requires imagination, management requires specifics.

4. Leadership requires abstract thinking, management requires concrete data.

5. Leadership requires the ability to articulate, management requires an ability to interpret.

6. Leadership requires an aptitude to sell; management requires an aptitude to teach.

7. Leadership requires an understanding of the external environment; management requires an understanding of how work gets done inside the organization.

8. Leadership requires risk-taking, management requires self-discipline.

9. Leadership requires confidence in the face of uncertainty; management requires a blind commitment to completing the task at hand.

10. Leadership is accountable to the entire organization; management is accountable to the team (Kerr, 2015).

Thus a leader is like the head of the family; who gives direction to the family.