“Pagkahaba-haba man daw ng prusisyon, sa simbahan din ang tuloy” (No matter how long the procession is, it still ends up in church). The Filipino proverb means that if a couple is meant to be together, delays or postponements in plans to get married are just hurdles along the way to a wedding in church. In another perspective, the annual highlight of the Feast of the Black Nazarene is its procession. And such always undergoes stringent planning, especially the route it takes, from and to the Quiapo Church. The execution and success of the plan, which covers the coordination with Manila City officials, Philippine National Police, medics, media, etc., takes more than a proactive event committee to manage the annual event as it needs a devoted chairman acting as leader and manager.

Fayol’s theory (1916) teaches us that a good manager possesses the skills in planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating and controlling. In other scholarly studies, management and leadership principles are differentiated, differentiated just as Peter Drucker said, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Similarly, Warren Bennis is always quoted with his famous line, “Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.” True leaders are also managers as per Robert Sutton (2010), who expounded that “To do the right thing, a leader needs to understand what it takes to do things right, and to make sure they actually get done.”

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