What really haunts leaders on a day-to-day basis is the mistakes that they make. The most common—and, not coincidentally, most damaging—mistakes involve interacting with people in the wrong way
Much of today’s leadership writing focuses on what high performing leaders should do. Certainly, that material helps from a theoretical and aspirational point of view. Yet what really haunts leaders on a day-to-day basis is the mistakes that they make. They don’t trip up because they are bad people; they most often fumble because of a lack of knowledge, bad habits or too much stress.
[This article has been reproduced with permission from IMD, a leading business school based in Switzerland. http://www.imd.org]