Manager Vs Leader

"A manager does the thing right and a leader does the right thing! "

Yes, we can find differences between a Manager and a Leader! As we know, Management focuses on "hard skills" of business: accounting, finance, sales and marketing, operations… skills that are much easier to teach and learn. Leadership focus on "soft skills"; Team building, inspiration, vision, trust, skills that we have by nature, and because of this, they are much more difficult to teach and learn.

We can learn how to be a manager, there are schools to learn it, and we can always learn from friends or family business (Our company manager, learnt with his father how to manage his family business). Managers focus on getting things done efficiently. We can find some managers with some emotional intelligence, with some characteristics that we find fundamental to be successful in management. However, we cannot say that we have a leader, just because this manager has success in his job by giving "good numbers" to his company.

Being a leader is much more than big numbers! In my opinion being a leader is something that is natural, that's not something that we look for, is something that naturally comes to us! I agree that the best leaders have a great level of Emotion Intelligence; they have 5 important characteristics that provide them to be followed by their team members, their workers, their friends, etc... A Leader needs to have self-awareness, self-regulation, has to be very motivated, needs to have empathy and most important needs to be social skilled. Of course we can find some of these characteristics in a manager! We can have a highly motivated manager, someone that has passion for his work, that knows how to define goals and to achieve them as well. We can find someone self-regulated, that as the ability to control him/herself, someone that "thinks before acting", and we could have someone who recognize easily his/her emotions and moods. However,