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What is the difference between management and leadership, and which is more important? Definition of leadership according to great scholars “Leadership is the ability to secure desirable actions from a group of followers voluntarily, without the use of coercion”- Allford and Beaty “Leadership is the ability of a manager to induce subordinates to work with confidence and zeal.”- Koontz and O’Donnell Definition of management “To manage is to forecast, to plan, to organize, to command, to co-ordinate and to control.”- Henry Fayol “Management is a multipurpose organ that manages a business and manages manager and manages worker and work.”- Peter Drucker From these definitions of leadership and management we can say that leadership is a function of management where leader influence people through position, authority, charisma etc. Manager only follow rules and manage activities in the organization. Another difference is that management is for formal and organized group whereas leadership for both formal and informal group. In management every person below the hierarchy of the manager has to at least listen what manager is saying and it is bounded.