5 Signs That Instantly Identify Someone With Bad Leadership Skills

I recently read "5 Signs That Instantly Identify Someone With Bad Leadership Skills" by Marcel Schwantes. Whilst this piece doesn't directly relate to LEAN methodologies or LEAN principles, having leaders who demonstrate the 5 signs of bad leadership will ultimately stifle any progress on a LEAN journey or a change management project. For businesses who employ such leaders, it makes it more difficult for them to realise improvements as well as difficult for a consultant to partner with them.

Imagine that instead of a "Bad Leader" demonstrating the 5 signs that they could actually substitute these signs with 5 value adding behaviours such as:

• Seeking to understand before being understood
  
• Being Authentic Keeping Promises
  
• Doing the right thing for the long term
  
• Apply disciplined thought & disciplined action
  

Associated with each behaviour comes a set of skilled traits (which I can elaborate on in more detail) and a leader who is skilled in these 5 behaviours coupled with utilising a host of LEAN tools/methodologies can ultimately drive a LEAN journey to great heights enabling their people to achieve great success as a result!