Two types of bosses: managers and leaders , retire at 40

Here’s what two of them had to say about what it takes to be an entrepreneur and the head honcho.

Richard Branson, founder at Virgin Group

“I’m often asked, ‘What does it take to be the boss?’ It’s a hard question to answer,” wrote Branson in his post What Does it Take to Be the Boss? Managers Versus Leaders. “In my opinion, there are two types of bosses: managers and leaders.”

A leader’s role, he wrote, is to work with people “to change the lives of others for the better”. Management, on the other hand, is “about maintaining processes, disciplines and systems. Where managers keep the rules, leaders have to be willing to break them, or at least find creative ways 

What if you didn’t have to wait until you were in your mid-sixties to retire? What about 50, or even just as you hit your 40th birthday? Don’t laugh — with enough dedication, you could say goodbye to your full-time job years sooner than you think