Signs of Weak Relating

05/23/2013

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Many executives who attempt to foster trust, optimism, and consensus often reap anger, cynicism, and conflict instead," observes Deborah Ancona in her article "In Praise of the Incomplete Leader" in On Leadership (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review, 2011). "That's because they have difficulty relating to others, especially those who don't make sense of the world the way they do."

To see if you have a challenge with relating to others, see if these signs of weak relating sound familiar to you:

You blame others for failed projects.
You feel others are constantly letting you down or failing to live up to your expectations.
You find that many of your interactions at work are unpleasant, frustrating, and argumentative.
You find many of the people you work with untrustworthy.

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