Category: FAQ-Leadership Myths & Mistakes
Leadership Mistakes – Refusal To Change, Lack of Adaptability, Rigidness
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…
Leadership Mistake – Confusing Commanding With Leading
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…
Leaders are Born, Leaders are Made – Two Leadership Myths
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…
Blanchard Research Findings On Leadership Mistakes
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…
Leadership Errors – Failure To Teach and Develop Others
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…
Should Leaders Admit Their Mistakes?
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…
Only A Small Number of People Can Be Effective Leaders – Leadership Myth or Truth?
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…
You Need To Be Popular, or Well-Liked To Be An Effective Leader (Leadership Myths)
Link Between Likeability And Leadership Effectiveness? It’s not surprising we tend to couple popularity with leadership effectiveness, since most of then tend to attribute various positive qualities to those we like. It’s called the halo effect. However, while there may…
Effective Leadership Requires [fill in the blank] – The Over-Riding Myth
The Primary Myth About Effective Leadership If you read about leadership, or attend seminars given by even the great leaders, you’ll often be told that “effective leadership requires [fill in the blank]” where the blank is filled in by some…
Leadership Requires Formal Power and Authority – Myth or Truth?
Leadership Requires Formal Power and Authority ORÂ Leadership Not Restricted To Formal Position? When we think about leaders, we almost always think about people who have or had formal positions of power — politicians, corporate executives, sports coaches, etc, probably because…
Leaders Need To Be Outgoing and Extroverted? (Leadership Myths)
No Introverts Need Apply For Leadership? When leaders are profiled in the media, they tend to appear as outgoing and extroverted, so we tend to associate effective leadership with outgoing personality types. This is misleading since the behavior of leaders…
