Category: FAQ-Leadership Myths & Mistakes

How Does Inability To Adapt Cause Leadership Decay? We all have a tendency to want to continue to do what we’ve been doing, when what we’ve been doing has been successful. Sometimes successful leaders fall into the trap of trying…

Mismanaging Stress Causes Loss of Leader Effectiveness (Burnout) Perhaps the most common reason some leaders go from effective to ineffective relates to the amount of stress they experience, and their lack of ability to manage that stress. This is particularly…

Failure to delegate is a common fault of many leaders. Since leaders in the corporate world tend to be people of action, and like the action, they tend to take on tasks that would best be delegated to others in…

Leaders are Human But… While we like to think human beings act consistently, you’d be surprised at how inconsistent people are, primarily because our behavior is heavily influenced by the context and situation. That’s normal and people around us actually…

Most people know the term “ivory tower“. It’s come to mean being out of touch with the “real” world or the rest of the world. It’s a major problem with respect to leaders. With respect to leadership, it means the…

It’s common for new leaders to spend a lot of their time being visible and in touch with their employees. In fact, it’s an important aspect of assuming the mantle of leadership. But here’s an odd, but understandable phenomenon. As…

If you look at leaders in real life, you’ll discover that some people in leadership roles maintain their effectiveness over time, but that others go from being effective to becoming ineffective, sometimes becoming destructive forces in their organizations. How can…

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…