By Sam Obitz

Poor leadership can kill an individual’s drive and turn otherwise thriving productive people into malcontents.

I have been associated with people who lost the love of their sport or job simply because of a change in coach or management. Some coaches and managers fail to feed the culture of the team when they fall into the trap of focusing on their training methods at the expense of losing the things that lead teams to their success.

Another common mistake many people in leadership positions make, is to assume that because they had success with their methods at their previous job, it’s going to work in their new assignment. If the first law of effective leadership is the ability to care deeply about those you are leading, then the second law is to be willing to adapt your methods to get the most out of the people that you are leading.

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