An allegory is often a powerful way to gain insight or provide a conceptual bridge over personal mental roadblocks.
Understanding differences among the three distinct management styles – Bossing, Managing, and Leading – is something many wrestle with.
This may help.
Bossing is watching over someone while they dig a hole.
Managing is sending someone out with instructions to dig holes.
Leading is digging a hole and planting a tree from which a forest spreads.
The feedback from each of these styles differs greatly. With Bossing the feedback is instantaneous. In a Managing style, results have to be audited and depending on the task timeline may extend over a long period of time to be able to get credible feedback. With Leading you may or may not ever get to see the results.
