Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

This devotion can also be a curse, blinding you to potential flaws in your product or the holes in your strategy. The leader’s curse is a condition that can be very dangerous to the financial health of your company, your competitive edge, culture, and professional career. And it is more common than you might think.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. Indeed, I just received an email from an executive about a member of his team who has a particular tendency to want to do everything. Interestingly, this team member is the most productive member on his team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? “Recognize that people do draw some impressions about you pretty quickly,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of Competing Against Luck and the HBR Guide to Office Politics. How do you get to know them without seeming like a kiss-up?

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