Author: Robert Bacal

Leaders in formal positions of power, authority and accountable can sometimes become overly concerned with short term results and outcomes. Obviously there is tremendous pressure to attend to results, and they are important. However, leadership isn’t just about obtaining results….

Common Leader Mistake – Trying To Treat Everyone The Same Probably because we live in a democratic society (at least most of us), there’s a mistaken notion that leaders and managers should treat all employees the same, in the name…

Understandable but Deadly Many of the common errors leaders make are a result of the pressures of the leadership position and forces exerted upon them by the organization. So as with many of the errors mentioned in our list of…

Failure to listen. A common leader flaw In a survey by the Blanchard Companies, over 81% of executives surveyed indicated they had come across leaders who failed to listen. This is a rather startling statistic and suggests that leaders simply…

Flexibility essential to long term leader success. In anything but the most simple leadership situations, one can observe a startling phenomenon. It’s hard for any leader to continue to be successful over time, and across situations, jobs, or companies. For…

Society pushes us to confuse commanding with leading When we think of famous leaders, we often think of military or political figures who appear (at least in their folklore) to be excellent commanders, exerting their positive effects through the ability…

False Dichotomy Makes For A Confusing Myth About Leaders If you’ve look at any literature on leadership, you’ll certainly have come across the statement — Leaders are made. You have almost certainly come across the term “born leader” as used…

Fourteen Hundred Executives Interviewed. What Are The Most Common Leadership Mistakes? The Ken Blanchard Companies interviewed over 1400 executives and leaders to find out what they thought were the most common leadership mistakes. What did they find? Heading the list…

Training and Development of Subordinates – An Important Leadership Function If you think of a leader as “the boss”, or “the commander”, standing alone at the head of an organization and running things, the training and development of others in…

There is a school of thought that leaders should not admit when they have made mistakes, presumably because there is a belief that by doing so, they lose credibility and power. You can often see this operating in politics, where…

Truer Than Most People Think If you look at lists of leadership myths often you will find one that suggests that it is inaccurate to suggest that leadership ability is restricted to a small number of people. Like many assumptions…