Part 2 of 5 - The Five Seductions of Leadership

Taken from an article on Leadership by Dave Anderson in Oct edition of Dealer Magazine
Seduction is defined as: enticing someone from the right behavior; to lure or entice away from duties, principles or proper conduct.

Seduction #2: Leaders are seduced by tradition.
This seduction includes the tendency to bond with, and become desensitized to, the mediocrity of some tenured employees, your old ways of doing things, and key elements of the status quo. Frankly, it's far easier to defend the status quo, "how we've always done things", and non-performing employees when things are going well. But to ward off the complacency that will break your momentum you must continue to challenge and attack the status quo, before the bottom falls into a rut. Unfortunately, it often takes a crisis to shake an organization out of its immersion in and addiction to tradition.

Remedy: Practice the discipline of changing before you have to and renewing yourself in absence of a crisis. Teach and expect your people to do likewise.