The Seven Deadly Toxins
Do your recognize any of the Seven Deadly Toxins at your workplace?
Deadly Toxin 1: Stifling Talent
When talented employees are stifled by overbearing management or lack of opportunity, they will become increasingly unhappy in their roles.
Deadly Toxin 2: The Blame Game
The Blame Game takes its most poisonous form when a leader feels that when things go wrong, employees should be punished. This leader does not focus on what went wrong and how to fix it, but rather on who did wrong, and what punishment is suitable.
Deadly Toxin 3: ignoring Burn Out
Burnout is a form of exhaustion, and exhausted people cannot and do not and will not produce good work. When the management ignores the causes of the burnout, or denies it exists, the poison will overtake the employees.
Deadly Toxin 4: Measuring by Method
Measuring by Method is driven by fear-based insecurity, paranoia, and perfectionism. Seeking perfection is just another way of being dissatisfied with the efforts of others towards a goal. It's an excuse for the leader to become overly involved.
Deadly Toxin 5: Constant Fast
The Toxin of Constant Fast can creep up on an organization in stages. Occasionally producing good results, this Toxin be addicting to some managers and CEO's who lose sight of the fact that humans simply aren't wired for Constant Fast.
Deadly Toxin 6: Revisiting Decisions
Real leadership is not consistently reactive. Leadership surely encompasses the ability to maintain the strategic plan while equipping the team with the resources necessary to execute the tactical details. When decisions are continually overturned, employees lose heart and focus.
Deadly Toxin 7: Living the Lie
The Toxin of Living the Lie is the most dangerous of all the Seven Deadly Toxins. It creeps about, cloaked as a wolf in sheep's clothing, ready to pounce in situations where the victims are most vulnerable, and most unprepared for the assault. Confronting one's own short-comings is never an easy task, but among those infected with the Toxin of Living the Lie it is practically unheard of.
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