Boss or Leader: some great quotes

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. - Russell H. Ewing

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could. - Charles Erwin Wilson

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat. - Napoleon Hill

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" - E.M. Kelly

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. - Rudy Giuliani

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss. - Diane Ravitch

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. - H. S. M. Burns

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. - Thomas J. Watson

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. - Dennis A. Peer

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. - Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is action, not position. - Donald H. McGannon

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. - Gene Mauch

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. - Elaine Agather

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. - Robert Jarvik

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. - Tom Peters

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. - John C. Maxwell

A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. - Mark Brouwer

Trusting with Abandon

You can't tell people that you trust them and then not act out the part. That breaks the trust. Trust takes forever to earn and a heartbeat to lose. You have to just let go with someone when you give them your trust. All in. You have to let them walk down the dark path on their own to discover the thorns, the roses, and everything else that goes along with the journey. It is their journey at this point not yours. You have your own paths to traverse. To truly trust someone is to let them go and meet them at the other side.

So many people say that trust is one of the most important qualities when evaluating a boss, a relationship, a friendship. But ask yourself how willing you are to hand over the keys, disengage and deal with the results from their decisions? What does it buy you to trust? Think about how much more you can focus on the things that you own to drive results and accomplish your goals without having to focus on something that you have "trusted" another person to do.

Trust is contagious. If you trust them entirely and let them drive, they will trust you. And you will create an amazingly effective partnership. You will find yourself seeking out these types of people and surrounding yourself with them at work and in your personal life.

Think there's some merit in what I'm saying? Trust me...