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To prepare for this Discussion:

• Reflect on your professional experience with leaders with whom you have interacted as a follower, colleague, or supervisor. Consider the strengths and weaknesses these professionals had with regard to leadership and management skills. How well did they perform their roles as managers and as leaders?
• Then, drawing from your professional experience, identify a leader with whom you have interacted as a follower, colleague, or supervisor that matches only one of the following descriptions:
  • They are a good leader lacking effective managing skills.
  • They are a good manager lacking effective leadership skills.
  • They are an effective leader and manager.
  • They are neither a good leader nor manager.

Post an analysis of leadership versus management in business, being sure to address the following:

• Without giving the actual name of the leader you have selected, identify their strengths and weaknesses as a leader and as a manager. Then distinguish the individual's leadership skills from their management skills.
• Analyze the effect the leader had on the business environment where you worked at the time. Was there a need for both management and leadership from this individual? Explain why or why not.
• Identify two lessons learned from working with this leader that you could apply to your own professional practice as a leader and/or manager.