Bosses vs. Leaders

I'm so glad that I was able to find this picture! Just the other day, my sunday school teacher was talking about her father who was a hospital manager, and the approach that he took to being a leader. He was very good at his job, and so often times other managers who were not so proficient would call him up and ask him to help them out when things were going badly. So he would come in, figure out what was going wrong, and fix it. She would come to work with him sometimes, and go to lunch with him. When he would eat at the hospital cafeteria he would never sit with the doctors, physicians, or those who were confident and sure of themselves. He would sit with the janitors, the technicians, and those that were on the lower levels of the hospital. He was wonderful at making them feel comfortable, and being a good freind. This way he would get a better overall feel of the hospital as a whole, among other benefits. Something else that he would do well was give credit to others. A great leadership skill that he had was when they were in hot water he would be the guy getting yelled at because he was the one in charge. He would take the heat, and then turn around and take care of the problem. When everything was going smoothly he would never take the credit. He would always spread it around and be generous in his praise of others. A leader is someone who says, "let's go" instead of "go". You should never ask someone to do something that you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.

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