Bosses are not only responsible for managing the company, they also have the obligation to make working environment comfortable and enjoyable for their employees. In today’s workplace employees are considered lucky if they get a good boss, the one that gives them inspiration, constructive direction and advice rather than critique and orders. “My boss takes away the credit for my good work”, think many today’s workers as they feel unnoticed and unappreciated. Therefore we collected 10 eye-opening quotes that every boss has to read if he wants to be a good leader.
A leader leads by example not by force. Sun Tzu
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
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says ‘Go!’ … a leader says ‘Let’s go! E. M. Kelly
I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team. Lee Iacocca
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. Tom Peters
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
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 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
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
Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers. Chris Brasher
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