In managerial theory is wrongly confuses the purpose and contents of the top leadership and operational leadership of other people. This semantic misunderstanding but has serious negative implications for managerial practice. While generally declares that valuable resource of each organization are its human resources, but in the managerial practice, with the potential of human resources often literally wasting. One of the causes of this phenomenon is currently the incorrect theoretical perception of the relation for top leadership and operational leadership. The subject of the contribution is the issue of the theoretical comparison purpose and content for top leadership and operational leadership of other people in order to clearly define their purpose, content and relationship to the effective formation and hence the functioning of the organizational management system.