19 mistakes technical leaders make most often

IT leaders often get a bad rap for being technical but lacking managerial skills. In fact, here’s a list of 19 specific mistakes IT leaders are most prone to.

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If you’re thinking about getting into IT leadership or are already there, you might want to check out this list (which appeared previously on hacknet.com). These are the 19 mistakes that tech leaders make most often:

1. Assuming the team serves you
2. Isolating yourself from the team
3. Employing hokey motivation techniques
4. Not providing technical direction and context
5. Fulfilling your own needs via the team
6. Focusing on your individual contribution
7. Trying to be technically omniscient
8. Failing to delegate effectively
9. Being ignorant of your own shortcomings
10. Failing to represent the best interests of your team
11. Failing to anticipate
12. Repeat mistakes others have already made
13. Using the project to pursue your own technical interests
14. Not maintaining technical involvement
15. Playing the game rather than focusing on the target
16. Avoiding conflict
17. Putting the project before the people
18. Expecting everyone to think and act like you
19. Failing to demonstrate compassion

Now this is a pretty exhaustive list, but can you think of any more? Or if you’re already a leader, are you or were you guilty of any of these? If so, how’d you turn things around?