Bad Leadership Habits

This list is from Businessweek Magazine. It is the top 20 things that will hinder leadership in business. It's amazing to me how Biblical principles hold true in all circumstances. See what you think:


Winning Too Much
The need to win at all costs and in all situations—when it matters, when it doesn’t, and when it’s totally beside the point.
Adding Too Much Value
The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion.
Passing Judgment
The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.
Making Destructive Comments
The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.
Starting with “No,” “But,” or “However”
The overuse of these qualifiers, which secretly say to everyone, “I’m right. You’re wrong.”
Telling the World How Smart We Are
The need to show people we’re smarter than they think we are.
Speaking When Angry
Using emotional volatility as a management tool.
Negativity
The need to share our negative thoughts, even when we weren’t asked.
Withholding Information
The refusal to share information in order to maintain an advantage over others.
Failing to Give Proper Recognition
The inability to praise and reward.
Claiming Credit We Don’t Deserve
The most annoying way to overestimate our contribution to any success.
Making Excuses
The need to reposition our annoying behavior as a permanent fixture so people excuse us for it.
Clinging to the Past
The need to deflect blame away from ourselves and onto events and people from our past; a subset of blaming everyone else.
Playing Favorites
Failing to see that we are treating someone unfairly.
Refusing to Express Regret
The inability to take responsibility for our actions, admit we’re wrong, or recognize how our actions affect others.
Not Listening
The most passive-aggressive form of disrespect for colleagues.
Failing to Express Gratitude
The most basic form of bad manners.
Punishing the Messenger
The misguided need to attack the innocent, who are usually only trying to protect us.
Passing the Buck
The need to blame everyone but ourselves.
An Excessive Need to Be “Me”
Exalting our faults as virtues simply because they exemplify who we are