Who knew Sliver would offer the best example of what being a good boss is in the entire thread?
Wait, I did, because any time Sliver talks about his business he sounds like someone I'd want to work for.
My advice would be to take Sliver's non-advice and emulate that in whatever way you can. The simplest way to put it is to be a human being and treat everyone else like they are equal human beings, and that their goals, responsibilities, troubles, etc, are no more or less important than your own.
The one thing I've noticed working with a lot of business owners and managers are that the truly great ones are simply part of the team, to the point where from the outside if you didn't know it already you would be hard-pressed to guess they were boss. They are the people who don't talk about being "empathetic" or "progressive" or really any positive qualities at all, unless directly questioned about it. They just live it and go on with their day. On the other side, the people that talk most often about these things are almost always #######s who seem to have trouble living them, as though they're just trying to speak that reality into existence.
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