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We need to rethink this.<\/p>\n

Despite countless articles, blogs and classes on how to be a better leader apparently most of us still suck at it. As the 2013 Gallup State of the American Workplace reports, uh, this is not a skill.<\/p>\n

Maybe the problem is one of design: all these things we\u2019re supposed to start doing to be an effective leader. Its just too complicated!<\/p>\n

How about a list of all the things we can just keep doing to ensure failure? Yes!<\/p>\n

To be the best at being the worst, simply\u2026<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Communicate<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Listen, you hire smart people. Why piss them off by communicating all the time? Let them do whatever it is they do all day and at least you won\u2019t annoy them by pretending to be in a leadership position. Let them figure it out: after all \u2013 no helped you<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Wander Around<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tom Peters is the only guy who ever made money wandering around and even he doesn\u2019t do it anymore. Forget this old chestnut and let your people be. If management wanted you to wander around and interact with the troops they would have given you roller skates, not a desk<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t set High Standards<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why fly with the eagles when you can run with the turkeys. Or trot. Or whatever turkeys do. Listen, standards are for people with a lot of expectations and desire, and those people don\u2019t work here. Just be an easy-going person and leave a little early if you can<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Listen<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Listening is for relationships and even lousy managers know they\u2019re not supposed to have relationships with their team. So quit mixing business and pleasure and ask your people to call the EAP the next time they need a sympathetic ear. You were never\u00a0 a good listener anyway and look where its gotten you<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Coach<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You wanna coach, go play t-ball or soccer. This is the real world and no one needs to be coached by the likes of you anyway. Let people sink or swim on their own and the strong will survive or something like that. Darwin said so. Or was that Dagwood? Anyway \u2013 just don\u2019t try to coach unless your last name is Landry and your first name is, uh, Coach.<\/p>\n

Turns out leadership is one of those things that\u2019s easy to recognize but hard to do. Like skateboarding. And yet, if we just take the afore-mentioned list and remove the word \u201cdon\u2019t\u201d we have a pretty nice start on what it takes to be a leader.<\/p>\n

So do or don\u2019t. Its up to you.<\/p>\n

Now let me go back to my office\u2026<\/p>\n

Christopher DeMers is a HR leader in Austin, Texas who’s blogsite ChristopherinHR<\/a>\u00a0is one of the most recognized HR\/ Recruiting sites around the globe.\u00a0 You can connect with Christopher on Twitter @ChristopherinHR.<\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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