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I generally agree with the idea that leaders are analogous to coaches, but I don't know about the pushing part. I think the best leaders inspire and don't push. But, while I'm quibbling about words, I see no need to purge manager from the lexicon. It's a perfectly good simple word that indicates what someone does, they manage.
Both managers and leaders are needed. They have different functions
"Manager" is pretty much a generic term that everyone understands as being somewhat similar to a "captain" in the military ranking system. They answer to a "major" (assistant director) who answers to the "colonel" (director) who answers to the general (vice president) who answers to the commanding general (president/CEO/board chairman). Usually they are part of "management," salaried, and not just an upper-level "labor," hourly. I think "team leader" or "unit leader" would probably be better. I had a manager once who told us not to refer to her by her title because she hated it. "I don't just 'manage,'" she said. "I excel." English is a weird language where words often have more than one meaning.
Changing the term won’t fix it - some people don’t know how to lead or maybe they don’t want to. Teaching people to be leaders is the best bet and even with the term/title manager they can learn to lead vs managing people.
I mean changing the term doesn't really change the funtion though so I feel like its all really the same.