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Can a leader be a manager or visa versa?

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What are the similarities between leadership and management skills?

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A leader is an innovator who creates strategic plans to promote the organization. A manager is an administrator who ensures that ideas are carryout.

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According to Pride, Hughes, and Kapoor (2017), a leader's focus is to influence others, managers, and employees to work towards performing and meeting organizational goals. Thus, a leader must have these skills: integrity, dependability, mentorship, problem-solving, decision-making technique.

According to Pride, et al. (2015), a competent manager must have five essential skills: conceptual, analytic, interpersonal, technical, and communication. For example, conceptual skills that stimulate their ability ...

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