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The Pitfalls of Leadership are descending steps, one connects to the other with predictable effects. 

Some leaders have referred to the descent as a “chain reaction.” 

The descent can be stopped at any time, with an intervention from others who the leader listens and healthily responds to, or a cry out from the leader in descent who is heard and responded to by others. 

The Five Pitfalls:

These pitfalls can destroy careers, friendships, reputations, marriages and families—unless one is freed from them. 

Living in freedom from the Pitfalls is work. It is a daily activity and a lifestyle. 

In the Pitfalls, we are driven by what we are running from. Essentially, we are running from: 

The daily activities that become the recovering leader’s lifestyle are:

Daily activities have to be practiced until we see the results and their benefits; 

The daily practices become a lifestyle. 

The leader eventually desires for his/her life to be different and adopts the new lifestyle because it is “better” than what life was like in the Pitfalls.

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