Title: 4 Ways Well-Meaning Leaders Lose Their Power | Inc.com
Headings: 4 Ways Well-Meaning Leaders Lose Their Power
4 Ways Well-Meaning Leaders Lose Their Power
With a few false moves, even smart, well-meaning CEOs can find themselves getting usurped.
1. Decision paralysis
2. Inviting too many people's opinions.
3. Accommodating everyone
4. Tolerating poor performance

Content: Inviting too many people's opinions. Getting too many people involved can hamper your ability to be decisive. " While including those who must live with a decision's consequences is important, over-including people at the expense of action isn't consensus-building, it's hiding," Carucci writes. Ultimately you are the one who has to make decisions and live with the responsibility. Don't open that job to others. 3. Accommodating everyone
If you try to accommodate everyone's feeling of ownership and control, you lose your own control. " When the need to say 'yes' overpowers the courage to say 'no,' it fragments organizations, and results in the final form of abdication," Carucci writes. 4. Tolerating poor performance
If you waffle on decisions and dole out too much control over the direction of projects, you'll find yourself with no power to mandate what the company's actual priorities are. "