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Some time ago a magazine writer asked me a probing question. She asked Elias Brazil Jersey , ?In your opinion and experience, what are the three most destructive things a leader can do to wreck an organization?? Actually, it's a profound question with many possible significant answers. I considered both effective and ineffective leaders I had encountered in my business experience. I pondered what could be, in my opinion, the three worst things a leader could do. Although many different things came to mind, I settled on three attributes that I had personally observed Ederson Brazil Jersey , or been subjected to, as being most destructive from a strategic point of view. It was necessary to discount numerous tactical behaviors that may appear destructive at the moment, but in the large scheme pale by comparison to the more strategic negative behaviors.


A few of the leadership behaviors I considered before I gave my final answers included such things as poor communication skills, poor delegation skills, poor team building skills, too much tactical thinking Douglas Santos Brazil Jersey , poor coaching skills, poor empowerment skills, and poor feedback skills. Any of these behaviors could be the three worst leadership behaviors, but I opted instead for things that I had personally observed as being highly destructive to not only people, but also to things, activities and processes.


My three answers were: 1) Personal Arrogance Douglas Costa Brazil Jersey , 2) Inflexible Position, and 3) a belief in Self-Resolution. Inasmuch as these three attributes constitute a wide range of specific behaviors, permit me to describe each one in more detail.


1. Personal Arrogance. Another way to describe arrogance is pride. Although there are clearly good aspects of being proud, pride can also be a handicap to effective leadership. First, let's look at the good side of pride. Leaders, managers and individual contributors can take pride in their job Diego Souza Brazil Jersey , an assignment, a task, or even a procedure. And such pride can be a motivator to perform well, thoroughly, and with a high degree of quality. So taking pride in one's job can be a positive attribute for any worker.


But unfortunately, there is a negative side to personal pride that I call unhealthy pride. When a person uses pride to the determent of others Diego Alves Brazil Jersey , then it can be a destructive rather than positive trait. Ezra Taft Benson said, ?The proud make [people] their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents or any other device against others.? In the words of C.S. Lewis: ?Pride gets no pleasure out of having something David Luiz Brazil Jersey , only out of having more of it than the next [person]. It is the comparison that makes [a person] proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition [or comparison] has gone, pride has gone.? So at the heart of unhealthy pride is judging oneself as superior to others.


The truth is that pride is often a liability that people often see in other people, long before they are willing to admit that it exists in themselves. This makes the proud unteachable, untouchable, and often unreachable when it comes to leadership development. Excessive pride in a leader can create executive isolation and insulation where lines of communication are disrupted at the most, or faulty at the least.


It is executive pride and the lack of personal humility that causes a leader to be convinced that his or her decisions are infallible and unchallengeable. Over time this creates in an organization a climate of fear Danilo Brazil Jersey , blind obedience and compartmentalization. Organizational compartmentalization occurs when workers feel most safe with their chin on their chest doing only what is necessary to keep from being disciplined or fired. There is in this dysfunctional climate no creativity, empowerment, risk taking, or free speech. Decision quality is, therefore, very poor. Chin on chest mentality negates the possibility of employees thinking or acting in a strategic manner.


2. Inflexible Position. I currently teach leadership development workshops for several clients. Within these courses is a module titled Dani Alves Brazil Jersey , ?Flexible Leadership.? The primary learning point of the module is helping leaders understand that ?one size does not fit all.? People are individuals and situations are situational. So when a leader approaches a situation in an organization he or she must demonstrate enough flexibility of position and ability to treat each person and situation differently. Rigid thinking and inflexible positions typically shut down lines of communication.


It's surprising how many leaders become dogmatic with their personal opinions, preferences and biases and as a result struggle with flexibility and adaptability. This might relate to unhealthy personal pride, or it could be insecurity, or it might even be inexperience. Whatever the cause, holding fast to an opinion or belief in the face of unconsidered different courses of action seriously limits decision quality. We know from mountains of evidence that decision quality usually follows a path of divergent thinking, following by facilitated convergent thinking. Stated another way Casemiro Brazil Jersey , the best idea usually follows many considered ideas. Conversely, the worst idea often follows a leader's unwillingness to consider the ideas of others.


3. Problem Self-Resolution. Several years ago a large portion of my consulting practice was helping organizations implement a system of process improvement. While assisting literally hundreds of functional and cross-functional teams as they endeavored to create and modify organizational processes, I observed an all too often tendency of some leaders who were supposed to empower the teams. These ineffective sponsors of teams had a belief that if a problem was left alone long enough that it might spontaneously fix itself. Some of these leaders clearly lacked enough courage to confront broken processes and uncooperative employees. Others just didn't want to upset the apple cart, so they would drag their heels in challeng>How do I. Fake Jerseys Sale Fake NHL Jerseys Online Cheap Fake NCAA Jerseys Fake MLB Jerseys Sale Fake Soccer Jerseys From China Fake NFL Jerseys Online Cheap Fake NBA Jerseys From China Cheap Fake Hockey Jerseys Sale Cheap Fake Football Jerseys Replica Cheap Fake College Jerseys Free Shipping