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Attitudes and behaviors to unlearn

What attitudes and behaviours must leaders unlearn in order to be successful?
  • Being rigid in thinking.
  • Not to seek perfection.
  • Thinking in their own closet.
  • Concentrating on negative factors that inhibit success without consideration of how to manage them.
  • Prejudicing and stereotyping.
  • Being narrow minded.
  • Reifying lines of command and control, positions which breed negative competition.
  • Reactionary thinking.
  • Making decisions and judgments under emotions.
  • `Boss-subordinate` binaries that instill fear and breed silo mentality.
  • Waiting for a strategic leader to lead.
  • Concentrating on operations with little emphasis on strategy.
  • Procrastination and complacency.
  • Being pessimistic about change.
  • Over-relying on yesterdays `tools`.
  • Focusing on what does not work by looking for what works
Practice Question
    Listen to the video above and study the readings given on this page. Focusing on a named institutional leader, what attitudes and behaviors must he/she unlearn in order to be more successful?

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