Corporate version of 15 aliments

This is one exception to my rule of never publicly commenting on views of religious leaders.

But what to do when the leader happens to be the Leader of the Vatican?

Here is the corporate version of the leader's message * to his team to improve.

1. Feeling immortal, immune or indispensable: Your role is valuable only if you continue to generate revenues, add value to your team's success and develop new products/ services to your customers.
2. Working too hard: You must take vacation to recharge and reenergize to reach higher goals.
3. Being spiritually and mentally hardened: Strive to keep your emotional and intellectual outlook young and fresh without developing a dinosaur attitude to business, organization and culture.
4. Planning too much: Enough said. I have seen some 'leaders' take 14 months to share the goals for her team.
5. Working without coordination: Working hard to undermine the other team's progress !
6. Having "spiritual Alzheimer's": The corporate equivalent is forgetting what it means to be young and energetic and fresh on the job/ role.
7. Being rivals or boastful: You have to work to not fight turf battles or promote yourself at the expense of other teams.
8. Suffering from existential schizophrenia: Do not devote yourself to building an empire, but connect and reconnect with customers, products and your team members.
9. Committing the terrorism of gossip: About internal politics. It is better to indulge and gain insight into markets, what the customers are asking/ saying about your products and services; about what rivals could be building and delivering better than you. It is good to gain market insights rather than political insight of your organization.
10. Glorifying one's bosses: Some people survive only because of this.
11. Being indifferent to others: Coach and help team members and support other teams across the organization rather than letting them fail.
12. Having a funereal face: Be enthusiastic about your team, their day and their work. Some people creep into leadership/ managerial roles with the mindset that they have to be somber and serious at all times. Build skills to energize the room with your presence.
13. Wanting more: Stop building your turf and your empire (in your mind).
14. Forming 'closed circles' that seek to be stronger than the whole: A fist is stronger than five fingers and many hands coming together is stronger than fists fighting each other. Break silos in your organization to build stronger companies that acquire more customers and more markets.
15. Seeking worldly profit and showing off: Some managers and 'leaders' spend more time in PR and building an outsized profile than quietly delivering results. Just look at the 'personal profiles' on business magazines of individuals. That is almost the kiss of death of the company.

My apologies to anyone hurt by these comments.