Significance of Paradigm Shift from “Management to Leadership” – A Review of Literature

The purpose of writing this paper was to establish the significance of Paradigm shift from traditional and old management concept towards the very innovative concept of leadership. Researches of very eminent scholars and contemporary leader were analyzed to understand the very need of this unavoidable shift. Now some organization or individual if is found slag to understand and implement this Paradigm shift of a ‘Manager to a Leader’, shall certainly bear the consequences of backwardness thus being lacking in core business. Because latest literature has termed a manager just a maintainer performing a routine job but a leader is a charismatic person who has the solution of each of the organizational, administrative or technical issue. Every manager now has to learn some requisite competencies to transform him into a leader. A manager after going through this article will not only well understand the significance to adopt this Paradigm shift but shall also learn the basic concept and ingredients of becoming a contemporary leader. This is not need of every individual but the organization as well as of the country.