The seduction of power: Being the boss can cause some
people to believe they are superior beings.
If you feel like you kind of own your people and they are lucky to be
working for you, you have a problem. You may be power crazy if you refer to
yourself in the 3rd person, you interrupt your employees in the middle of
important business tasks to get them to do personal favors for you or people
tend to bow and clasp their hands when they ask you questions.
Causing people to stop using common sense: People who
are demanding cause their people to get distracted away from their priorities.
Common sense is not always that common! You need to make sure you are not
distracting your people away from thinking and you get people to think by
asking good questions.
Indulging in favoritism: Do you have employees that
you like more than others? Do you think
the other employees know that? This is a big deal because it can cause a good
employee to lower their productivity. If
some employees feel less valuable than others, they will stop giving their best
effort.
Overreactions that create liars: You may act in a way that makes your people not want to tell you things (you end up the least informed person in the office). There is enough dishonesty in the world without us creating it in the people around us. Some of us have more control over our reactions than others.
Overreactions are an acute awareness. If you have quick reflexes,
you tend to be overreactive (a good pilot or Astronaut is the exception but
they are hard to find). The key is to be accepting and tolerant or tell people
you may overreact but you recover quickly.
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