"Leaders create trust, not policies and procedures"

Great leaders inspire.Great leaders create trust. Most importantly great leaders lead. This is the biggest difference between a leader and a manager. Managers are there to create policies and procedures and follow them. Leaders on the other hand create trust so that employees feel comfortable enough and believe enough in the organization to want to follow these policies and procedures and even change them for the better. A manager simply can't inspire trust if he simply follows guidelines. 

Martin Luther King Jr. didn't show up with action plans and elaborate proposals so that we could understand what he was trying to do. He simply showed up and said, "I have a dream". From that moment on everyone who showed up to support him showed up because they too believed in what he believed in. They didn't show up because they were following him, they showed up because they too believed in the change he was trying to create.  

There's a deep disconnect in organizations today dealing with an organizations ability to pick leaders and managers. It's leaders we need more of. It's people who inspire change, and who decide to empower people to do so as well. We've created too many managers waiting on instructions on what to do. We need more people inspired enough to follow their own ways. 

-Marco Adrian Ortiz