A leadership style that is controlling creates a toxic, minimally productive workplace. The danger of controlling leadership is that an enviroment of diminished trust, hindered communication, stifled initiative, divisiveness, and a climate of apprehension and ambiguity are created from the top down. Employees will quicky adapt to this by either conforming to it, creating a whole host of personnel and personality issues within the workplace, or worse, by simply leaving the o

Leadership assignments, though highly sought after, often result in failure. In fact, according to recent data from @DDIWorld, 33% of leadership hires don't work out. Regardless of whether the disconnect is in the hiring process or in the actualized abilities of the new hire, any new leader is destined to fail if critical areas of leadership skill are not in place and in the process of development. New leaders fail in part beause leadership is a role that is almost opposite

Any boss can say yes or no. Leaders say, "Yes!" Great leaders say "yes" more often. Does that mean that to be a great leader you should say "yes" to everything? NO! To minimize the risk of sounding like I'm talking in circles, let me get right to the point here. If you find yourself saying "no" to your team more often than "yes," the problem is not your team (ouch). Great leaders understand that planting seeds is the real power behind the ability to say, "Yes!" Like a