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Misleading Conduct # 7 – Micromanaging Your People
Mis-leaders focus on the insignificant. They go deep into the organisation and tell others how to do their job. Mis-leadership through micromanagement is guaranteed to make people fearful on several...
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Misleading Conduct # 8 – Playing Favourites
No matter what size or type of business they lead, leaders will most likely interact with dozens, hundreds or thousands of people in a month. Most of them will fall into various categories: executive...
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Misleading Conduct #9: Making Meetings and Interpersonal Interactions Painful
I once worked in an executive assessment centre with a very accomplished manager who was a co- assessor with me. One night we were chatting after dinner and he mentioned a mutual acquaintance. “Of...
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Misleading Conduct # 10 : Continually Moving the Performance Goalposts
Misleaders always want to be focussed on the performance of the business as an outcome AND always want to operate as if there is no connection between their leadership and the performance outcomes of...
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Nice Tee Shirt – Not!
Chris Gandy wrote a great blog recently about and the benefits that flow to people and their organisations when Leaders create trusting relationships. The article reminded me of a conversation I had...
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Misleading Conduct # 11 : Applying Organisational Discipline Sloppily and...
“Organisational discipline” refers to the body of knowledge which guides how the organisation works. It often includes directional and aspirational statements like visions, missions, goals etc. It...
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Misleading Conduct # 12 : Avoid Interacting With Real People In the Organisation
Especially when there is upset within or changed external conditions, a leader’s job, like the captain of the ship, is to lead from the bridge. The way the misleader sees it, their job is to have...
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Misleading Conduct #13: Control Your Own Schedule And Create Chaos With Others
By Ian Sampson Leaders get to their exalted position by learning to skillfully manage time. After all, time is all we have. So the leader’s time is valuable and needs to be managed. This is usually...
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Misleading Conduct #14 – When Times Get Tough, Lock Yourself Away
By Ian Sampson This misrule sometimes gets interpreted heroically as “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Misleaders, however, have taken this to a new place: when the going gets tough...
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Misleading Conduct #15: Having a Dysfunctional Home Life
By Ian Sampson As the old saying goes, “Being emotionally crippled is not essential for running a business but it sure helps!” (I just made that old saying up!) So what if your personal life is a mess?...
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Misleading Conduct #16: Be Flaky On Safety
By Ian Sampson “People are our most important asset and Safety is our number one priority.” ”Yata yata, yata!” as George would say in the Seinfeld series. You can almost see people’s eyes glaze over as...
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Misleading Conduct # 17: Make Day To Day Management A Misery For People
From Ian Sampson In a Wizard of Id comic I once read, the King saunters up to the sculptor chiseling away and says: “I want my new statue to remind the peasants of what I’ve done for them. What should...
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Backword … On Misleading Conduct
From Ian Sampson The Misleading Conduct series started out as a few “notes to self” on leadership, based on my own experiences, as well as many years of observing and working with and for leaders in...
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