1. Not thinking BIG for business
2. Being mind-possessed by details
3. Being addicted to reacting to competition
4. Focusing on problems, not opportunities
5. Focusing on people’s weaknesses, not strengths
6. Start everything with the assumption that ‘you cannot trust anyone’
7. Succumb to the ‘ice-cream salesman’ syndrome (try to keep everyone happy)
8. Hiding behind lots of data when making decisions
9. Mismanaging the quality-time-cost triangle in decisions
10. Not creating an environment of diversity of opinions
11. Procrastinating key decisions about the core of the business
12. Allowing personal stress to cascade down to the organization as pressure increase
13. Not assessing the risk of risk-aversion (allowing mostly fear to drive decisions)
14. Confusing the level of activity with the level of added value in the organization
15. Sticking to past success formulae only
16. Not allowing the time, space and conditions to self-reflect, develop and learn
17. Not balancing heart, brain and gut
18. Not balancing short-term and long-term
19. Not balancing strategic and implementation concerns
20. Focus solely on results, people or processes
