What are your biggest fears as a leader?

Personal Development

Being seen as an imposter15%

Being criticized32%

Being a failure41%

Not being a good communicator32%

Not getting it done42%

Other (please comment)1%

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Director in Manufacturing2 years ago

Budget cuts but keeping same deliverables.

Vendor budget cuts but demanding same SLAs

Layoffs, but no reduction in workload

CSO in Construction2 years 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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no title2 years 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.

VP of Product Management in Software2 years ago

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

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