"The besetting sins of business leaders are pomposity, overrating their own talent and importance, taking themselves way too seriously, oversimplifying complex problems, patronising employees and customers, and being slippery with the truth. Those of people lower down the corporate food chain include gossiping, back-biting, bitchiness, laziness, jealousy, whining, and blaming others for their own mistakes and misfortunes."
There you have it. Now stop it. Don't take yourself as seriously as the project. Spend a little time thinking through the steps it will take to implement that great idea you had. Listen to rather than dismissing that customer criticism. It WILL pay off.
Slow Leadership reminds us of how we can miss our targets:
Are you settling for the appearance of success, rather than doing the hard work needed to make that success real? Are your trophies all fakes?
Do you recognize your own besetting sins: the habitual wrong choices that come from being too lazy or afraid to do things the right way, when the wrong way seems so much easier?
Do certain bad behaviors in others make you especially angry? Might it be because they reflect your own negative habits back to you, and you don’t like to be reminded of them?
Would you like others to treat you they way you treat them? If not, why do you deserve better? Are they so different to you?
When you look at your life in total, are you leaving the world a better place for your presence, and the people around you happier for having known you? If you aren’t, what on earth is the purpose of your life? Why should the rest of us put up with you at all?
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