What are your biggest fears as a leader?

Personal Development

Being seen as an imposter18%

Being criticized38%

Being a failure47%

Not being a good communicator32%

Not getting it done30%

Other (please comment)1%

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VP of Product Management in Software2 years ago

Very interesting to see this data. would love to get your perspectives on the 'scaries' executives have in all the ones you've coached and groomed through your career

CSO in Constructiona year ago

Interesting that this poll has separate answers for 'Being seen as an imposter' and 'Being a failure'. There is a lot of overlap with these.

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Partner in Travel and Hospitalitya year ago

The two have slightly different meanings to me. Imposture is the act of pretending to be someone else. But being a failure could be missing the sales target, failing on projects or running the team/company to the ground.

Director in Manufacturinga year ago

Budget cuts but keeping same deliverables.

Vendor budget cuts but demanding same SLAs

Layoffs, but no reduction in workload

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