tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post8266608297822011332..comments2024-03-05T05:09:20.870-05:00Comments on Tim Gamble: There's a Major Difference Between Being a Leader and Just a BossUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-40817347840435258572018-12-02T15:41:02.131-05:002018-12-02T15:41:02.131-05:00Both the "boss" and the "leader&quo...Both the "boss" and the "leader" benefit from -- and therefore strive to engender -- discipline among the ranks. Your article echoes the tenets spoken by Major Gen. John M. Schofield in his address to the Corps of Cadets of the US Military Academy at West Point way back in 1879, when he said the following:<br /><br /><br /><br />"The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to destroy than to make an army. It is possible to impart instruction and give commands in such a manner and such a tone of voice as to inspire in the soldier no feeling but an intense desire to obey, while the opposite manner and tone of voice cannot fail to excite strong resentment and a desire to disobey.<br /><br />The one mode or the other in dealing with subordinates springs from a corresponding spirit in the breast of the commander. He who feels the respect which is due to others cannot fail to inspire in them respect for himself; while he who feels, and hence manifests, disrespect toward others, especially his subordinates, cannot fail to inspire hatred against himself."<br /><br />– LTG John M. Schofield, 1879<br /><br />Another example of the difference between "boss" and "leader."<br /><br />Good article. Thanks. <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com