George Babafemi, CEO of eTranzact Ghana Limited, speaking at the 20th edition of Step Up Business Forum said, “many people find it difficult to differentiate between a leader and a boss, and that is why I call it leadership crises”.

Many things have been said about leadership. People have been going to seminars and there are theories on how to be a leader, but then when you look around our society we have leadership crises right from the top, down to the least person. If some of the training, seminars, and workshops in and out of the country are yielding results we shouldn’t have the kind of environment we have now, which made me go deeper into looking at what other things could be the missing link.

The boss is controlled by a warped mindset, he sees himself as somebody that has to be pushed to enjoy all the benefit of living at the expense of his people. Here the boss and the Leader are all moving towards a goal. A boss is somebody who sits and makes all the controls around.

A leader simple leads, so the leader is at the forefront of whatever policy and instruction he put on the ground, he is there to ensure things are done exactly as he has put it down. A leader operates with a unique mindset.

There are so many kinds of mindset a leader and a boss can use but they are a world apart, for instance, somebody that thinks I’m not supposed to be here and make all the shots, bully people around and that’s all he thinks who a leader is, this is called a warped mindset, someone who has renewed his mindset and doesn’t think that is how it’s supposed to be is a leader.

In the period of crises, a leader sees an opportunity but those who are not leaders their mindset sees problems. A boss mindset will just be calculating the number of people that have been affected while a leader will begin to see the people affected and find solutions to the problem.