Leadership Blind Spots: Why Your Change Efforts Might Be Failing

When leaders announce a major company-wide change, they’ve often spent weeks and maybe even months thinking about it. Strategizing around it. But employees hear about it for the first time at an announcement – one that is quite vague and doesn’t even scratch the surface of the strategy and impact leaders have thought about behind it. Yes, it happens, and rollouts like this are leadership blind spots that need to be overcome. After all, people can’t read their boss’ minds.

Leadership blind spots

• Illusion of shared knowledge
• Silence trap
• Stubbornness stumble
• Impact blindness
• Speed misjudgment
• Too much information
• Forgetting about emotions
• Setting and forgetting?

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