Leadership & Management Traps

What do you feel are the "traps" to which leaders and managers are most vulnerable? What types of traps do leaders and managers fall into that can delay, derail or destroy their careers? Please give us your thoughts.

My Problem and How I Solved It!

Please tell your peers about a problem you were able to solve by using a subjective, objective or intuitive (or combination) approach to problems solving and decision making. Please remember this site can be viewed publicly so keep any confidential details out of your post.

The Role of Dominance

In your opinion, and based on what you've learned from our DISC assessment and training, how important is the role of dominance in leadership and management?

Please keep in mind that we are all a blend of DISC so each of us have varying amounts of dominance in our "hard wired" behavior. We have also each have different levels of learned dominant behavior. According to DISC, hard wired dominant types only make up about 10% of the population and the DISC assessment is gender neutral. Dominant types are also described as: Dominant, Direct, Demanding, Decisive, Determined, Doer. Please comment on your experience and observations with either hard wired or learned dominant behavior.

Employee Responsibility & Accountability

This week's leader, a manager of multiple funeral homes in Florida, asks: "When I have to constantly repeat the same refrain: Is the morning routine done? Why was the music system left on? etc. It is because those things are important to me, not them. No? So how do I create the importance in the mundane things that most of the staff could care less about?"

Please post your responses to his question. Keep in mind some options, including: shame, guilt, threats, pleading, avoiding, ignoring, the usual suspects!

Rich