Management as an Art of Leadership - Harshitha S Reddy

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Management as an Art of Leadership

Learning the art of Leadership through Management is a rapidly growing requirement in the modern society. Revolutionary ideas executed in the form of start-ups by individuals will require leadership qualities to handle the business effectively. An effective manager is the one who implements the essence of leadership in a business scale. Managerial skills are learnt through various courses offered by management colleges. Post-graduation in Management offers leadership courses required to conduct a business in a right way managing all domains and people working in those domains.
MBA in Leadership and Management is one of the courses that is implemented recently to leadership enthusiasts, executives, managers and students to learn the art of leadership. Management is a collective action of planning, directing, organizing and implementing, whereas Leadership mainly focuses on directing or driving the workforce efficiently towards the goal. Various MBA colleges have started to implement Leadership courses in their curriculum because of its growing need across India. The fact that Bangalore is a hub for start-ups has led to increase in Leadership related courses across various B Schools in Bangalore.

Under the MBA in Leadership and Management course, there are different specializations offered by Colleges. All of these specializations lead to overall directorship growth of the student. Apart from the business knowledge a person managing a crowd should inculcate some skills to handle the personalities and work of each person belonging to the crowd. These additional skills are divided into certain specializations such as:

● Product Leadership
With the goal of reaching the market with a great product, the company or a business starts with product innovation initially. It is the main step because it deals with giving rise to an idea, which turns out to be a product. Understanding of the customer needs is one of the important steps in choosing the product to be developed. Driving the workforce towards developing the product and delivering it to the customers, further taking their reviews and modifying the product is a complete cycle to be managed. The Product Leadership is a platform for gaining skills in developing a product and delivering it to the concerned.

● Entrepreneurship
The process of building a new business, organizing, developing, and maintaining it equally with the competitors is not a quite easy task. It requires training and mentorship of how to lead the workforce and how to constantly re-create ideas. Entrepreneurship is a course, which gives knowledge for starting a business and running it successfully.

● Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
The responsibility that a company bears about its social impact is not very simple. Sustainable business should have a good impact on its stakeholders to survive in the competitive world. Learning how to bear the social responsibility is very important and this specialization in MBA offers to teach them.

● Performance:
Performance is the key factor that a company or business strives to achieve. It depends on various factors like resources available, workforce, efficient management, etc. A good manager should lead his team with motivation to work in any situation. Various theories have been proposed to handle the workforce and attain efficient work from them. Learning and implementing those theories in practical is the main goal of Performance Leadership.
Since Leadership plays a very important role in the success of a product or a business many new entrepreneurs, managers, executives, etc are interested in mastering the art of efficient leadership. This has given way for MBA Colleges to come up with new leadership courses.

Author – Harshitha S Reddy