Ten Mistakes of Leadership

General S.L.A Marshall started out in life as a newspaperman, Then he was given commission as a Major and then was shifted into U.S army historical section. He Absorbed a lot information from europe leaders then written books about his experience with europe leadership in World war two. The book name was MEN AGAINST FIRE it was most controversial books in 1947.

In his 1966 book, The Officer as a Leader he shared thirteen mistakes leaders should avoid that are worth considering:
1. To attempt to set up your own standard of right and wrong.
2. To try to measure the enjoyment of others by your own.
3. To expect uniformity of opinions in the world.
4. To fail to make allowance for inexperience.
5. To endeavor to mold all dispositions alike.
6. Not to yield on unimportant trifles.
7. To look for perfection in our own actions.
8. To worry ourselves and others about what can't be remedied.
9. Not to help everybody wherever, however, whenever we can.
10. To consider impossible what we cannot ourselves perform.
11. To believe only what our finite minds can grasp.
12. Not to make allowances for the weaknesses of others.
13. To estimate by some outside quality, when it is that within which makes the man.

S.L.A Marshall.