I am kind of a leadership nerd. Many people confuse leadership and management as the same thing and they are most certainly not. One of the great misconceptions about leadership and in general dealing with people is that we should live and operate by the "golden rule". Treat people how we would want to be treated." Leadership doesn't work like this, we have to learn our people and love our people so in that we apply the "platinum rule." Treat people how they want to be treated. Everyone is different and applying a one size fits all method will doom a leader.