Why Good Managers Can Be Poor Leaders?

First of all we need to identify the features of good managers. I’ll just

go for short. Good managers are good planner, listener, good teachers,

self confident, flexible and patience. On the other side, there are five

problems that exist in the poor leadership.

1. They replicate the poor leadership skills of others.

2. They lack basic skills for leadership.

3. They lack good mentors.

4. They lack formal leadership training.

5. They are unable to distinguish between secular and biblical

leadership values

If I pack the whole matter in a box, I came to know that there are

managers who are good enough in managing their work but the

problem with them is just to lead the team. They can do anything very

well without any support of human capital and human resource but

after all there comes a time when you need to lead the team. There

they fail. Most important think about the good leadership is that a good

manager must know the human psychology and he must know the

ways to lead them after motivating them.

I want to discuss some problems that good managers have and that

makes them to go for bad decision and poor leadership.

What are the main causes that leaders make terrible

decisions?

The very first reason is

that Leaders have a

tendency to rely on past

practices that seems

constructive, but is actually

sometimes risky. One of the

most well known examples is

Dick Fuld at Lehman. He

saved Lehman in the aftermath of the LTCM crisis in the late '90s. Fast

forward 10 years or so and he also, I believe, thought he would do it

again. But the experience he was relying on was not the same as this

massive housing-driven collapse. It's much more complex, much more

complicated. We always talk about how important experience is. I think

we overstate experience, because it doesn't exactly fit the situation

you're in. You're liable to rely on it in a way that's just not going to be

that helpful.

The second reason is self interest that could be very dangerous.

There are many examples when there is a good manager, he or she

work for the self interest and that is the easiest job for them to deceive

the organization and employees. Because people trust they and these

kinds of managers cash their interest for their self interest. Most

people don't realize self-interest operates at a subconscious level.

They are not even aware of how self-interested they are.

The third reason is what we call prejudgments. Leaders make

prejudgments about their businesses that sometimes turn out to be

wrong. Why does a smart experienced leader make a mistake like

that? I think it's this vulnerability to prejudgment -- deciding something

is the way it is early on and sticking to it no matter what. It is not

always successful that what you think is right. People sometimes call it

predictions. But predictions are again not right all the time. If your

prediction is wrong, it could cause the heavy loss for the organization.

The fourth reason is over confident. If the good manager is over

confidant, the probability of bad leadership is more. Because they do

the things without estimating them. There comes again the part of

past experiences but the thing is that life gives the new challenges

everyday and you need to do something about the problem other than

your past practices.