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I Present to you; 15 traits of bad leader

1. Lack of Transparency
Staff can tell when you’re not being completely honest with
them. There’s rarely a reason not to be entirely transparent
with your team, especially at a young, growing company.
Your team will appreciate understanding exactly where the
company stands. This will help everyone come together as
a team, focused on the problems that need solving for the
long-term benefit of the company. Lack of transparency can
result in a lack of trust.
—Mitch Gordon, Go Overseas

2. Not Listening
Listening to all employees as often as possible is so
important to building a loyal and faithful team. Everyone
needs to be part of the process and bigger picture.
Interacting and listening to your team is something that is
too often forgotten by CEOs, with the hustle and bustle of
job and travel schedules. It shouldn’t be.
—Jason Grill, JGrill Media | Sock 101

3. Dismissing Ideas Other Than Your Own
I didn’t realize how toxic this behavior was until it was
pointed out to me. Your employees should never feel like
they’re pitching you in a way that makes you (as the CEO)
think you’re spinning the gold. Understanding a good idea,
helping to develop it and providing strong praise and credit
where due is incredibly important.
—Jeff McGregor, Dash

4. Valuing Experience Over Potential
CEOs should be careful not to value experience over
potential. Some of our best employees haven’t been the
most experienced. What they do have is something that’s
impossible to train or develop—it’s a fire in their bellies to
deliver world-class products to our clients. You can’t teach
that.
—Chris Cancialosi, GothamCulture

5. Ego
The best leaders are ones who accept blame when things
go wrong and give credit to their team when things go right.
In order to be a true visionary leader, you need to let go of
your ego and focus on your people because without them
you would be nowhere.
—Nick Friedman, College Hunks Hauling Junk

6. Working 24/7
I asked a fellow entrepreneur about his weekend plans a few
weeks ago. His answer: “I work all weekend.” I understand
the ownership and passion that comes with running a
business, but you have to set the example for your
team, have other interests and learn how to take a break.
Otherwise everyone will assume they have to work that
much and burnout of the entire team is inevitable (and a
toxic culture will follow).
—Susan LaMotte, Exaqueo

7. Lack of Empathy
Leaders must understand the problems their team faces,
and then begin doing anything to remove barriers to entry
so their team can do the best job possible. In my
experience, these barriers include a lack of resources, a lack
of direction and a lack of culture.
—Adam Root, Hiplogiq

8. Forgetting About Leadership Development
Educating and creating a growth plan for your employees is
one of the things that should never be ignored but often
slips through the cracks. Having a growth and education
path not only increases employee retention but makes for a
smarter and hungrier team. If you think about it in reverse,
can you afford for your team not to learn or grow? Imagine
if your marketing team was doing the same things they are
now in four or five years.
—Sujan Patel, When I Work

9. Being Overly Conservative
Modern leaders must be absolutely tenacious in getting the
results they desire—from themselves, their organization,
their team, even their customers. Get rid of overly
conservative notions. You miss 100 percent of the shots you
don’t take. If you don’t take that risk, you’ll never know
what that opportunity would be. You’ll never have to
say “would’ve, could’ve, should’ve.” Use your guts, and in
my experience and in the end, everything works out well.
—Scott Petinga, The Scott Petinga Group

10. Permitting Negative Gossip
Spreading any sort of negative gossip about others sends a
signal that it’s not safe to be around that person. Trust is
immediately shattered, and people fear that what they are
saying may be shared behind their backs. Leaders who
either gossip or don’t take measures to eradicate it are
harming more than just company morale. They
are impeding the flow of honest feedback and
communication throughout the organization.
—David Hassell, 15Five

11. Poor Communication of Strategy
CEOs tend to map out ideas in our heads but don’t share
the process. Then, when the team starts making
suggestions that you’ve already eliminated through
thoughtful internal deliberation, they get angry. But no one
knows you’ve already done that—so both sides get
frustrated. My co-founder would tell me this all the time, so
I started writing ideas and plans out to make sure my
process and conclusion are easy to understand.
—Benish Shah, Before the Label

12. Closed-Mindedness
It’s crucial as a CEO to be open-minded and listen to
feedback and ideas from others. Being closed-minded and
unwilling to change your perspective will cause issues with
both your employees and the success of your business.
—Josh Weiss, Bluegala

13. Assigning Blame
Take responsibility for any of your team’s failures. At the
end of the day, you ultimately hold all the responsibility
anyway, so let your team know you understand that things
didn’t work out the way they should have. Then propose
solutions instead of assigning blame.
—Lane Campbell, Syntress SCDT

14. Inconsistency
I have often been blamed for sounding like a broken record
but it is a record that my staff, clients and vendors know
and can count on. Too often I see CEOs who are
inconsistent and change their minds, which leads to
confusion and mixed signals among everyone around them.
Sticking to your guns and accepting the fate (even if it’s
bad!) will lead to opportunities to continue learning while
building trust in others.
—Kim Kaupe, ZinePak

15. Being Too Slow to Adapt
Successful startups grow rapidly. CEOs who fail to keep up
risk being clueless, close-minded and arrogant. A lack of
knowledge leads to indecision and fear and can cause
employees to quickly lose trust in their leader.
—Neil Thanedar, LabDoor