In almost every company, anyone can get a promotion to the address if he spends time and plays his cards well.
But being called a boss does not mean that he is going to become a leader. Precisely that is the problem.
People aspire to be leaders when what they should do is aspire to be leaders.
These are some of the differences between a leader and a boss:
Differences between a leader and a boss
1. A leader thinks of people as people. A boss only sees titles
and resumes.
A true leader strives to understand the strengths and weaknesses of both his team and each person who is part of it.
A boss does not value you, he values your CV. He does not care who you are , all he cares is what you have.
2. A leader wants to earn respect. A boss wants to fall
well.
Leaders are not always the nicest people, but they are sincere and transparent.
In contrast, bosses are the opposite of transparency. They want to be loved by all apparently, but then they will not hesitate to leave you in embarrassment before everyone
Leaders know that closeness to their team is necessary, just as they know that sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice short-term sympathy for long-term respect.
3. A leader gets excited when his team members achieve great
things. A boss is threatened.
A boss really does not have much to contribute.
He has risen to positions and has assumed a bureaucratic role. That’s all he has, and it’s normal to be afraid of losing him.
Therefore, as someone from the team does their job well and excels in their work, the boss’s worries will increase.
A leader, however, takes the achievements of his team as if they were his own and recognizes that the job of a leader is not to create followers. It is creating other leaders.
4. A leader works thinking about the future. A boss focuses
on the short term.
It is easy to get caught up in the urgent things before the important ones. For the boss, he spends most of his energy in the daily routine and at most in matters that have to do with next week.
However, a leader does not work expecting daily or immediate rewards. He knows that great achievements take time and he works more thinking about tomorrow than living in the present.
5. A leader understands that if the team is not up to the
task, he is responsible. A boss understands that if he is not up to the task,
the team is responsible.
Once again everything is reduced to fear. A boss has not bothered to earn the respect of anyone so he has fears losing power someday. If the team does not comply, the boss’s first concern is whether or not he will lose his job.
A leader, for his part, does not look for reasons why his team has not lived up to it
Even if he knows that the fault was that of a specific member, he carries the responsibility and encourages the team to do it better.
