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12 Ways to Flop as a Leadership Team

Faith Ralston

1. Fail to create a vision and/or strategy to achieve it.

2. Consider customer complaints a nuisance.

3. Delay important decisions as long as possible.

4. Withhold your opinions about substantive issues.

5. Visibly struggle for power and control with your peers.

6. Make decisions based on gut reactions and personal opinions.

7. Get distracted by one crisis after another.

8. Ignore performance issues and hope they'll go away.

9. Have infrequent, unproductive and boring meetings.

10. Believe that communicating your vision once is enough.

11. Avoid conflicts and vent your frustration to others.

12. Allow missed deadlines and poor results to go unchallenged.

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