3 Leadership Myths to Avoid

  Leadership   ProjectsAtWork  

Most people don’t give blind obedience to someone based on their position on an organizational chart. And most great leaders don’t look or act like they do in the movies. Here are three all-too-common leadership myths that should be dispelled before they damage team environments.

Bradley was failing, and failing badly. Not only did the members of his team avoid him in the lunchroom and never stop by to say “good morning,” they had begun taping a target to his back every day and everyone had signed up for archery lessons. Bradley’s leadership style just wasn’t working.

Unfortunately, Bradley’s core problem was that he suffered from several leadership myths he’d picked up from pop culture. Like many project managers, he didn’t have any formal training in leadership so he had been practicing his motivational speeches in the mirror. He could spew out all of the latest leadership buzzwords. But somehow it just wasn’t working.

What Bradley didn’t realize was that his ailments were completely fixable. They are pretty common today. Perhaps you’ve seen these leadership myths in your workplace:

1. The Myth of Omnipotence 

This shouldn’t be confused with mythy of ominipresence (the power to be everywhere). The myth of omnipotence is thinking you can tell anyone on the team to do practically …

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