Generally organizations are complex entities often very difficult to control and to administer. In this sense “key persons” like Leaders and Managers are vital parts of an organization. But what is leadership, what is management and what is the difference between them?

Maxwell defines leadership as an “influence - nothing more, nothing less.” and a leader’s purpose according to Kent is “to create direction and the unified will to pursue to through the development of people’s thinking and valuing”.

One of the most interesting phenomena in companies is that employees are afraid of the “change” (Prashant Bordia, Effects of poor Change Management history on employee attitudes and turnover). Taking an example of my personal working experience as a team leader, I had to make some changes, in the development tool that we used. The new one was more effective than the previous and it had the option to generate and reuse code from the modeling process. Nevertheless its benefits, the team were not convinced about the effectiveness of the new development platform. In order to accomplish that, I had to create a new framework and directions in order to convince them that they will do their job more effective and more timeless.

After having stated what Leadership is, now we have to define what Management is.
Management is the science that can be defined by building a communication framework throughout the enterprise which conveys on to the proper centre of perception and decision, reliably, fast, clearly, and selectively (Drucker). Therefore, a manager’s purpose is to determine and compare the alternative uses and to allocate resources in order to accomplish his goals (Kent).

And that was my purpose, when I was working as a project manager for a small business project in Altec. My duties were to fulfill the project in the amount of time that had left, to work with