"Yes Virginia, there is a difference between management and leadership." The preceding four articles address the issue of management and leadership and sometimes blur the distinctions between those skills necessary to be a good manager or to be a good leader. The articles also looked at the issue of organization and how organizations increased effectiveness through the skills and talents of their top administrators. Gaufin, Kennedy, and Struthers (this issue) looked at ways to intentionally develop the leaders in an organization by utilizing a number of actions and strategies. Thompson (this issue) concentrated on management as a way to expedite change in an organization. He also saw leadership and management as part of the same basic administration process. Williams, Costich, Hacker, and Davis (this issue) presented the necessity of administrators developing a systems thinking perspective. They uniquely saw an opportunity to use systems thinking methods for state officials with their academic partners to evaluate a learning management system. The implication of their work is a recognition that systems thinking is an important leadership set of skills. Rubin and Stone (this issue) saw management and leadership as similar activities and used Managing by Walking Around as a leadership exercise.
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