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Most Devastating Management Habits Are Actually Insecurity in Disguise
Don’t forget the human behind the harmful habit
How do you cope with your own insecurities?
I asked this at a recent management workshop and most people in the room seemed reluctant to speak up.
Fair enough.
Then one guy, let’s call him Steve, raised his hand and shared that, after years in therapy, he’d learned his insecurities aren’t something to be ashamed of.
They’re your standards speaking out to try to force you into building the capability to get there.
I’ve worked with hundreds of leaders over the years. And time and again I see the same thing:
Bad habits that look like incompetence are, upon closer inspection, echoes of a person’s fears.
The fear of failure. Of being exposed. Of losing control.
And the fear of being redundant.
Managers might seem easy to hate. But they can be more than pantomime villains.
They’re normally just people like you and me who’ve ended up operating in a role or company with the kind of environment where they’re…
