Most of my blogs are about the success or how things should be done. I forgot to talk about the times I failed as a leader. Now that I am looking back and reviewing several events of my career life in last two years as a leader, I realized I have failed several times.

1. I tried to seek more control and power. I should in fact give advice and try to mentor more and be more patient. So I failed.
2. Sometimes I did not set clear expectations or even worse I forgot to track everyone’s progress so I failed.
3. Sometimes I forgot that delegating is the best mentorship so I failed.
4. Because the environment around always waited for me to solve their problems it made me become arrogant. I thought I am the solution of everything so I failed.
5. As a leader that always tried to push the organization forward, I created enemies for myself. So I failed.
6. I have to know myself, control myself and communicate my core values, expectations and beliefs everyday but I did not do that successfully when I get into day-to-day of business so I failed.
7. Sometimes these failures caused me to make less decisions and not in a right time. So I failed.

Failure has always opened my eyes to appreciate my responsibilities as a leader. It’s made me think about my duty, its impact on others and the business. It has made me want to become a more effective leader by finding innovative ways to improve my skills. In fact, I am a student of leadership. I hope you have find my failures useful and help you to prevent failing. Fail Fast and Succeed Faster.

While ago I decided to openly criticize my bad leadership habits, started it with this post. I hope you find my failures useful and help you to prevent failing. In this post I am trying to share my observations of other leaders (I share some as well with them).

Fail Fast and Succeed Faster.

These are some of other bad habits that I have observed from other leaders in my career or heard from peers, which I will try to avoid such bad habits in my own leadership:

1. Control, giving up the control is very scary, no matter how much I am trying but still I am failing. It is tough challenge.
2. Decision Making, some of the leaders can not make a decision. Sometimes making a wrong decision and fail fast is better than waiting for so long to make a decision.
3. Change Resistant, these leaders they fail to understand that change is a mandatory option of any business. The more disruptive idea is the better experiment is.
4. Leading by fear, I have still seen leaders that think respect can be gained by creating fear among followers. Seems they do not have “inspiration” in their dictionary.
5. No Vision, some leaders think they have vision like they wanna achieve $5 million revenue a month??? That is not vision. Best leaders have clear vision and thinking long term.
6. Favoritism, long ago I wrote this post however I strongly believe favoritism kills the moral of team.
7. Anger, they walk around office by looking fierce and angry. I did that too but I have seen these leaders do it more often.
8. Blame, oh god, these leaders will never make a mistake. There is always someone else in the organization that should take the blame.
9. Emotional decisions, such leaders instead of making decision based on data they make decision based on their feelings, some even worse they use the data to prove their emotion is logical. Haven’t you seen such leaders in your career?