Leadership faces five temptations

[oxford.] Message: all leadership has failed. If you fail, they tend to blame those irksome reasons, such as strategic error, not full of marketing, competitive threats and technology failures, etc. However, these are just a problem of representation, all leaders committed to the same fundamental errors: yielding to the temptation for some, thereby unnecessarily complicate the situation; too some details of the damage to the personal leadership skills.

Specifically, the lure of leadership include the following five aspects: select status than work results, select personal prestige and not the responsibility, to choose the right decision and not clearly indicates, select surface harmony rather than conflict, select the no-compromise instead of trust.

Temptation: select status instead of the results of the work

For a Manager, you must clear the most important principle is based on the results of the target. However, in many companies, the evaluation of the highest managers tend to not do so. Many leading to something other than work is more important, that is looking to protect their professional status and leading authority. However the problem is that if a person is not seeking results "paranoia", how he could become a company of leadership? for example, the majority of leadership in their positions before the pursuit of results of the "paranoid". Unfortunately, when they reach the target, to be known as the Executive Director or Manager, many of them will give attention to how to maintain their status.

This situation occurs because the actual goal in life they just get personal interests. Standing at the top of goal in life is, of course, only on the downhill road. We can reasonably infer: they once the highest Office, it will stop at nothing to protect it. For this reason, many CEOs and most managers make decisions to protect their interests or reputation.

What is more, they also avoid making may damage its status. Actual performance, they tend to reward those who help them "self", rather than contribute to company performance. This was a question: is it managers don't understand through focus on making the results, they will be given a higher status and greater "self" meet? Yes, they understand that, but actually do need long-term, intensive work, in this process will result in too much can lead to danger of loss of status of the episode.

To overcome this temptation there is only one approach is to work as a personal success in the most important standards, otherwise only from leadership positions domesticity. You have led the company's future, both for employees or customers are very important, that's what really determines your status of metrics.

Temptation two: select a personal prestige and not a liability

Even if some leaders resisted too tempting to protect their position, they sometimes still fails, this is why because they do not have prompted the staff responsible for their own duties. This is a necessary condition for achieving results. At this point, the leader who yield to another temptation: want your own welcome.

Hope they are employees of welcome is human, but to lead, but is dangerous. Leadership can be "lonely". The majority of companies, top management in addition to those who report directly to him, it is difficult to have more time and everyone is familiar with.

Those who report directly to the leadership, relative to other employees, the company usually age, salary levels also considerable. Most leadership with these subordinate became friends, and their needs and weaknesses often can feel them. Finally, due to the huge task currently, leadership and the subordinate Brotherhood of producing the "between" feeling.