Avoid These Classic Leadership Mistakes

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Lead Change, a division of Weaving Influence, publishes twice monthly with SmartBrief. Today’s post is by Jane Perdue.Pay, prestige and the opportunity to serve all come with being a leader. Know what else does, too? Pressure. Lots of it. Most of it not good.

There’s pressure to perform, conform, make money, keep the boss happy and do more with less. The demands come from every direction in the organization — up, down, across –as well as from within. We feel the pressure in discussions with the boss, at performance-review time and in interactions with our colleagues or direct reports.