Being a leader requires a lot of effort, experience and skill, but being a manager is easier than that, all we need to do is perform tasks according to the plan. In the case, we can say that not every manager can become leader.
I used to work in the Japanese Trading company in
According to the Hersey, leadership involves 3 interrelated elements (cognitive, behavioral and process skills) which I think he lacked a characteristic of the process skills in term of he use solid way to supervise and communicate with his employees, he always yell at them when they made mistake without investigate what real problem was. He had a bias toward his female staff about work. And most of all, according to his Japanese working style, he made the staffs work 10 hours a day without over time paid. Thus, his staffs never respect him at all and most of them refuse to work for him in the next project.
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I worked briefly at an NGK spark plug factory in the San Fernando Valley. My immediate supervisor was Anglo-American, but the management and other employees were Japanese-American. My supervisor told me that what he liked better about the Japanese-style-of-management factory, over a typical American-style-of-management factory, is the tradition that the managers spend some amount of time every month working at all the other jobs, for example, working on the assembly line. In this way, they remain in touch with the issues all workers face, and they maintain a measure of humility. It also helps with worker morale to see a manager working at their level from time to time. You would never see an American CEO working on an assembly line!
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