Leadership Anti-patterns — with personal anecdotes

Learning via Negativa is robust. You should know what to avoid, especially mistakes people often commit. Leadership is a wide subject and mastering it requires practice and experience. The minimum you can do is to stay away from mistakes others commit every day. In this article, I provide a list of common leadership anti-patterns that I have observed during my career in the tech industry. I will narrate practices and behaviors I have personally experienced in different organizations. If you see some of these in your organization then my advice is to look for an opportunity in a more conducive environment. If you are a manager, make sure you avoid these at all costs. Leaders are fully responsible for developing organizational culture be it healthy or toxic. <h2>Trying to Control Everything</h2> Somehow there is a strong tendency in people to try to control their reports by “keeping a close eye” on everything they are doing. It seems we are not programmed to delegate and let go of our control. We want everything to be done “our way” resulting in micromanagement. This tendency manifests itself in many ways. I have been to an organization that required all of their staff to write their daily progress in a spreadsheet that is visible to everyone in the company. Furthermore, people who failed to report daily progress till a cut-off time were shamed publically by sending an email to all staff with their names. Another manifestation is when your manager keeps nagging you trying to find out if you are making progress. Such managers only slow down any progress at best and frustrate the team at worst. Click Here<a href="https://medium.com/@muhammad.amir.iqbal/leadership-anti-patterns-with-personal-anecdotes-30fcc7b52b79">https://medium.com/@muhammad.amir.iqbal/leadership-anti-patterns-with-personal-anecdotes-30fcc7b52b79</a>