What’s the difference between an employee and a leader?

Toku McCree
2 min readMay 2, 2022

Leadership is about more than responsibility

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You might say it’s responsibility or scope of work, but very often the biggest difference is mindset.

An employee thinks about their work as a series of tasks to get done.

Those tasks are clearly defined and their job is to complete them to the satisfaction of their manager…

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Toku McCree

Executive coach and writer. I’ve toured with rock bands, trained as a zen monk, and taught preschool. My hope is that my writing makes you think.