Management Mistakes

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Management Mistakes
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Thirteen Fatal Errors Managers Make

• 13 Fatal Errors Managers Make And How to Avoid
  Them, Steven R. Brown, Berkley Books, 1985.

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13 FATAL ERRORS MANAGERS MAKE

• 1. Refuse to accept personal
  accountability.
• 2. Fail to develop people.
• 3. Try to control results instead of influence
  thinking.
• 4. Join the wrong crowd.
• 5. Manage everyone the same way.
• 6. Forget the importance of profit (cash).

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13 FATAL ERRORS

• 7. Concentrate on problems rather than on
  opportunities.
• 8. Be a buddy, not a boss.
• 9. Fail to set standards.
• 10. Fail to train their people.
• 11. Condone incompetence.
• 12. Recognize only top performers.
  
  
  
• 13. Try to manipulate people.

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Ten Fatal Flaws That Derail Leaders
Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, Harvard Business
Review, June 2009
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Ten Fatal Flaws

• Lack energy and enthusiasm.
• They see new initiatives as a burden, rarely
  volunteer, and fear being overwhelmed. One such
  leader was described as having the ability to
  suck all of the energy out of any room.
• Accept their own mediocre performance.
• They overstate the difficulty of reaching targets
  so that they look good when they achieve them.
  They live by the mantra Underpromise and
  overdeliver of their own efforts.
• Paradox

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Ten Fatal Flaws

• Lack of clear vision and direction
• They believe their only job is to execute. Like
  a hiker who sticks close to the trail, theyre
  fine until they come to a fork.
• Have poor judgment.
• They make decisions that colleagues and
  subordinates consider to be not in the
  organizations best interests.

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Ten Fatal Flaws

• Dont collaborate.
• They avoid peers, act independently, and view
  other leaders as competitors. As a result, they
  are set adrift by the very people whose insights
  and support they need.
• Dont walk the talk.
• They set standards of behavior or expectations of
  performance and then violate them. Theyre
  perceived as lacking integrity.
• Resist new ideas.
• They reject suggestions from subordinates and
  peers. Good ideas arent implemented, and the
  organization gets stuck.

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Ten Fatal Flaws

• Dont learn from mistakes.
• They may make no more mistakes than their peers,
  but they fail to use setbacks as opportunities
  for improvement, hiding their errors and brooding
  about them instead.
• Lack interpersonal skills.
• They make sins of both commission (theyre
  abrasive and bullying) and omission (theyre
  aloof, unavailable, and reluctant to praise).
• Fail to develop others.
• The focus on themselves to the exclusion of
  developing subordinates, causing individuals and
  teams to disengage.