Hi, Karin - as always, useful and engaging information:)

First, a quick story.  I once spent an entire day bound, gagged, and treated as baggage by my staff as they worked through an all-day ROPES course experience, because they kept looking at me whenever the facilitator asked them a question ... and he noticed.  Very interesting being taken completely out of the team role, as a leader and as a participant.  Taught me something about what you are getting at here.

Second, this is one dynamite list of "Leadership Gotchas" and one I am painfully familiar with, having committed most of these sins at one point or another.

The reality is that leaders too often, trust a little, but not enough.  We want our folks to be creative, dynamic, and independent ... but get real nervous when they start to display the behaviors we say we want.

Thanks for a great post:)

John