Leadership and Management must go hand in hand. Leaders, in an organization set up rise from the ranks of Mangers. Leadership and Management are not the same thing but they are necessarily linked and complementary. Any effort to separate the two is likely to cause more problems than it solves though it is necessary to differentiate between Managers and Leaders. While every leader may not be a manager, every manager should be a leader. A manager who lacks effective leadership traits will drive a business into the ground faster than we can all imagine. In this assignment, the writer is going to give Scholarly definition of a manager and that of a leader and differentiate between managers and leaders and a conclusion will be reached at the end of this paper.

Majchrzak and Rosen (2007) define a leader as “someone responsible for articulating a vision for the team, communicating the vision with passion, setting an execution plan so the vision can be accomplished, forming coalitions of believers, aligning others behind the vision and shaping a team culture by articulating operational values”.

Locander et al (2007) define leadership as “the visible manifestation of an organization’s project’s success or failure. Therefore he or she must engage the followers to believe in and achieve desired outcome”.

Armstrong (2008) describes leadership as “a process that focuses mostly on developing, communicating and motivating” while Mullins (2007 describes leadership as “a relationship through which one person influences the behavior or action of other people”.

Bennis (1989) defines a Manager as” a person responsible for planning, budgeting, structuring jobs, staffing jobs, measuring performance and problem solving which helps an organization to predictably do what it knows how to do well”.

From the above definitions, a leader can be defined as “a person who sees opportunity,