Complacency | Corporate narcissism |
Counterproductive secrecy | Disconnection from reality - not meeting customers, competitors and other industry insiders |
Disengaged team members | Empty promises - words without action |
Excessive structure - narrow roles / lack of flexibility | Facility shortfall / physical environment |
Failure fatigue - repeated failures that have lowered morale | Failure to align to the goals of an organization (e.g. bringing politics to work) |
Failure to challenge assumptions | Favoritism - recognition, promotions and assignments based on friendship over talent |
Fear of criticism / cowardly communication | Groupthink |
Handling ambiguity - requiring too much direction | Handling criticism |
Hands-off - avoidance of details / practical work | Harsh Feedback - feedback intended to embarrass others or discredit them |
Hesitation to share ideas | Inconsistent direction / leadership |
Inflexible - assuming things must be a certain way | Lack of Candor - holding back on critical feedback |
Lack of accountability - not my mistake | Lack of comradery / shared experience |
Lack of entrepreneurial spirit | Lack of initiative - waiting around for instructions |
Lack of ownership - not my problem | Lack of respect for time - leisurely pace to meetings / work |
Lack of standards / process | Lack of urgency - allowing minor issues to derail progress |
Long-term focus - always talking about 5 years later with few results now | Low cooperation |
Low morale | Managing the expectations of stakeholders |
Mediocrity -- fear of conflict / avoidance of action items | Meeting commitments to each other |
Meeting commitments to stakeholders | Neglect of problems - not solving obvious problems |
One-upmanship - trying to look better than others as opposed to adopting a cooperative team spirit | Overcommunication -- too many meetings / emails |
Overdependence on a few key people | Overly democratic decisions without strong leadership direction to provide a sanity check |
Overly political | Overplanning |
Poor working conditions | Promoting value of team to organization |
Red tape | Relationships with stakeholders |
Resistance to change | Respect - negative politics / impoliteness |
Risk avoidance / lack of calculated risk taking | Sense of purpose - what we are doing matters |
Setting expectations | Short-term focus - addressing problems today in ways that hurt the future |
Skills shortfall / training needs | Unclear goals |
Unclear structure - who does the what? | Underplanning / reactive mode |
Unmanaged risk | Unrealistic expectations - require constant feedback / praise / recognition |
Work ethic | Work-life balance issues |
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