Respect is earned and not demanded by true leaders. This is a quote you may have seen before. However, you can put it on a motivational poster, you can say it in a meeting, and you can believe it deeply, but until you live it, it means nothing. The moment you demand respect because of your title, you’ve already lost it. The moment you expect people to fall in line simply because you’re the boss, you’ve revealed that you don’t understand what real leadership is.