5 leadership mistakes that kill your firm's hopes of success
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 03:49 IST
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2. Allowing Pseudo-Wins
It's a common phenomenon that talented employees tend to lose their focus on the critical but tough path problems which must be solved to transform an idea into reality. Managers often commit the mistake of allowing the best ones to taste the feeling of satisfaction on some simpler tasks or by providing some assignments or projects that are simply more fun. Hamm advises leaders to develop an eye and ear for this weakness and they must try to listen for it in every conversation and look for it in every ops review. "They must relentlessly redirect energy to the hard problems, realizing that it is human nature to drift from the tough stuff in favor of more emotionally fulfilling and easier project modules," he says.

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