Dan Martell - August 15, 2026


Boss vs. Manager vs. Leader


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

228.19

Word count

327

Sentence count

44

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Toxicity

6

sentences flagged


Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
00:00:00.320 Criticizes you in front of the team.
00:00:02.480 Boss.
00:00:03.200 Insecure.
00:00:03.820 Bosses, do as I say, not as I do.
00:00:05.640 Criticizes other people, that's boss behavior.
00:00:07.520 Person who's always in a meeting.
00:00:08.820 Manager. 1.00
00:00:09.520 Managers fucking kill themselves by death by a thousand meetings. 1.00
00:00:12.520 And then they have no time to do anything and they wonder why. 1.00
00:00:14.680 Asks employees for feedback.
00:00:16.220 Leader.
00:00:16.640 Great leaders realize they don't know what they don't know and they ask for feedback so that they can learn quicker.
00:00:20.900 Blame the team if things are going bad.
00:00:22.940 Boss.
00:00:23.440 Boss forgot that they're the ones in charge.
00:00:25.440 Texts you about your work on day off.
00:00:27.280 Manager.
00:00:27.680 The manager is doing that because they don't know how to set frameworks, status reports, reporting timelines.
00:00:33.320 Praises you in front of the rest of the team.
00:00:35.000 Leader.
00:00:35.680 They're creating a bright spot for everybody else to point to.
00:00:38.960 Takes credit when things are going well.
00:00:40.560 Boss.
00:00:41.040 It goes from the we to an I really quick.
00:00:43.640 Asks the team for a plan when things aren't going well.
00:00:46.280 Leader behavior.
00:00:47.120 Great leaders know that if they build the plan with their team, the team won't fight the plan.
00:00:50.680 So if things aren't going right, they work with their team to co-create.
00:00:53.280 Weekly one-on-one meetings.
00:00:54.600 Leader.
00:00:54.980 Leaders know that rhythms are important
00:00:56.460 and that's why they do the one-on-ones every week.
00:00:58.220 High turnover on employees.
00:00:59.720 Boss.
00:01:00.180 People don't quit companies, they quit leaders. 1.00
00:01:02.120 High turnover means you suck. 0.99
00:01:03.700 Gives you more work than other people. 0.99
00:01:05.480 Managers probably do that
00:01:06.460 because managers are trying to manage things
00:01:08.640 and anybody that's able to just get the work done,
00:01:11.460 they'll just like not want to fight with anybody else
00:01:13.460 so that it's easy for them.
00:01:14.620 Never in the office, but expects everyone else to be.
00:01:16.900 That's a boss.
00:01:17.940 They aren't willing to do
00:01:18.840 what they're asking their team to do.
00:01:20.160 Throws a monthly pizza party.
00:01:21.800 Managers.
00:01:22.480 Culture is not pizza party.
00:01:23.980 cultures as standards.