Boss vs. Leader

By Jaxson

  • Leader

    Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to “lead” or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. Specialist literature debates various viewpoints, contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership, and also (within the West) United States versus European approaches. U.S. academic environments define leadership as “a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task”. Leadership seen from a European and non-academic perspective encompasses a view of a leader who can be moved not only by communitarian goals but also by the search for personal power.Studies of leadership have produced theories involving traits, situational interaction, function, behavior, power, vision and values, charisma, and intelligence, among others.

Wikipedia
  • Boss (noun)

    A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.

  • Boss (noun)

    A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.

  • Boss (noun)

    A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.

  • Boss (noun)

    A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.

  • Boss (noun)

    A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.

  • Boss (noun)

    the target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.

  • Boss (noun)

    A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

  • Boss (noun)

    A head or reservoir of water.

  • Boss (noun)

    A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.

  • Boss (noun)

    A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

    “Bad people make for bad bosses. ― Dawn Pine”

  • Boss (noun)

    A person in charge of a business or company.

    “Chat turned to whisper when the boss entered the conference room.”

    “My boss complains that I’m always late to work.”

  • Boss (noun)

    A leader, the head of an organized group or team.

    “They named him boss because he had good leadership skills.”

  • Boss (noun)

    The head of a political party in a given region or district.

    “He is the Republican boss in Kentucky.”

  • Boss (noun)

    A term of address to a man.

    “Yes, boss.”

  • Boss (noun)

    An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

  • Boss (noun)

    Wife.

    “There’s no olive oil; will sunflower oil do? — I’ll have to run that by the boss.”

  • Boss (verb)

    To decorate with bosses; to emboss.

  • Boss (verb)

    To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.

    “lord over|boss around”

  • Boss (adjective)

    Of excellent quality, first-rate.

    “That is a boss Zefron poster.”

  • Leader (noun)

    any person that leads or directs

  • Leader (noun)

    one who goes first

    “Follow the leader.”

  • Leader (noun)

    one having authority to direct

    “We elected her team leader.”

    “chief|chieftain|commander”

  • Leader (noun)

    one who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles

    “Leader of the House of Commons”

    “Senate Majority Leader”

  • Leader (noun)

    a person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

    “The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.”

  • Leader (noun)

    a performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra

    “conductor”

  • Leader (noun)

    an animal that leads

  • Leader (noun)

    the first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster

  • Leader (noun)

    the dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions

    “alpha|pack leader”

  • Leader (noun)

    someone or something that leads or conducts

    “en|guide|conductor”

  • Leader (noun)

    an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs

  • Leader (noun)

    a fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant

  • Leader (noun)

    a pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground

  • Leader (noun)

    the first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story

  • Leader (noun)

    a section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line

  • Leader (noun)

    a piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press

  • Leader (noun)

    a loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price

  • Leader (noun)

    a type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face

  • Leader (noun)

    a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number

  • Leader (noun)

    a net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.

  • Leader (noun)

    a branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one

  • Leader (noun)

    a block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places

  • Leader (noun)

    the drive wheel in any kind of machinery

    “driver|drive wheel”

Wiktionary
  • Boss (noun)

    a person who is in charge of a worker or organization

    “union bosses”

    “her boss offered her a promotion”

  • Boss (noun)

    a person in control of a group or situation

    “does he see you as a partner, or is he already the boss?”

  • Boss (noun)

    (in computer gaming) a particularly tough enemy, usually appearing at the end of a section or level

    “the boss characters provide more than enough challenge”

    “you may be required to kill a boss monster”

  • Boss (noun)

    a stud on the centre of a shield.

  • Boss (noun)

    an ornamental carving covering the point where the ribs in a vault or ceiling cross.

  • Boss (noun)

    the central part of a propeller.

  • Boss (noun)

    a large mass of igneous rock protruding through other strata.

  • Boss (noun)

    a cow.

  • Boss (verb)

    give (someone) orders in a domineering manner

    “you’re always bossing us about”

  • Boss (adjective)

    excellent; outstanding

    “she’s a real boss chick”

Oxford Dictionary

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