7 Bad Habits Of Bad Leadership.

1. Bad Leaders blame (condemn) people they lead

Bad leaders are excellent at throwing people under the bus. They are quick to throw blames on their subjects. A leader’s task is to protect and grow those she/he leads. A leader should never publicly blame others for things that have gone wrong. As a leader, you should always be a single point of accountability.

That does not mean that you shouldn’t have various private discussions with the people involved to create a plan of prevention. However, you should never publicly condemn or convicts anyone but have a reflection of self, on how to move forward. Bad leaders blame their teams, and if we are talking country, they blame the opposition for the country’s problems. And sometimes they go as far as to blame race, ethnicity, tribes, etc. As leaders, our essential job is to own whatever crisis that we inherited, and to work hard and make it better.

2. Bad leaders lead by fear

These are the gravest of bad leaders. One of the aims of leadership is to build confidence. You cannot constitute trust with others when they are afraid of you. What occurs? A mess of declining team performance, or if we are talking country, a broken economy with the opposition living in fear due to the low self-esteem of the leader. When any leader leads in fear, team members stop giving the…