The eighth deadly sin of leadership

This article is part of the Contemporary leadership series

If there is ever an opportunity to add in an eighth deadly sin, then I am putting my hand up to nominate 'assumption'.

In my experience, assumption is already the #1 business and workplace sin; the destroyer of deals, the terroriser of team dynamics – yet it continues to pervade organisations the world over and therefore ought to be at the very top of the list of behaviours to be coached and trained out of talented professionals.

Maya Hu-Chan was rated one of the World’s Top 8 Global Solutions Thinkers by Thinkers50, and one of the World’s Top 30 Leadership Gurus in 2013.

Maya is an international management consultant, executive coach and author. Harvard Business School has chosen her book “Global Leadership: The Next Generation” to be one of their Working Knowledge recommended books. She is also a contributing author to 10 leadership and management books.  Maya was born and raised in Taiwan and lives in San Diego, California. She has worked with thousands of leaders in Global Fortune 500 companies around the world.