Boss or Leader?

boss-or-leader.md

The boss drives employees;
  The leader coaches them.
The boss depends upon authority;
  The leader on good will.
The boss inspires fear;
  The leader inspires enthusiasm.
The boss says "I";
  The leader says "we".
The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown;
  The leader fixes the-breakdown.
The boss knows how it is done;
  The leader shows how.
The boss says, "go";
  The leader says, "let's go"!

-Anonymous

Possible attributions:

• H. Gordon Selfridge. (1997)
• The 4-H Family (1933), in an uncited article entitled "The Need of Clear Thinking".

gid-rid-of-management.md

Whoever heard of a world manager?
World leader, yes.
Educational leader,
Political leader,
Religious leader,
Scout leader,
Labor leader,
Business leader.
They lead... They don’t manage.
The carrot always wins over the stick.
  Ask your horse.
You can lead your horse to water,
  but you can’t manage him to drink.
If you want to manage somebody,
  manage yourself.
Do that well,
  and you we’ll be ready to stop managing,
  and start leading.

-Anonymous

machiavelli-on-innovators.md

"It must be remembered that
there is nothing more difficult to plan,
more doubtful of success,
nor more dangerous to manage
than the creation of a new system.

For the initiator has the enmity
of all who would profit
by the preservation of the old institutions
and merely lukewarm defenders
in those who should gain by the new ones."

-The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

translated and edited by Thomas G. Bergen; (copyright 1947), Crofts Classics