ABSTRACT
Ego Trap 1-Ignoring Feedback You Don’t Like You take the fact that you don’t receive much negative or con-
structive feedback as a sign that you are doing your job as a leader
really well and don’t need to focus on your own leadership devel-
opment. You assume, without testing, that if your team is honest with you
about operational issues that they can also be relied upon to give
you candid feedback about how you are doing as a leader. You do not regularly ask your team for feedback, and when people
attempt to give you some form of feedback, you rebuff or ignore
them rather than inviting them to share more. You think secretly to yourself: “If they don’t like what I’m doing,
they can go get a job somewhere else!”
