Leadership Blind Spots: What your Team Isn’t Telling You
A candid moment between team members reviewing business operations, highlighting the conversations leaders must have to address internal challenges before they become costly disruptions.
A project stalls. Deadlines slip. Turnover ticks up. Everyone says they're “doing their best,” but the cracks are widening, and nobody’s naming the real issue.
This isn't about lazy employees or hiring the wrong people. It's about leadership blind spots, patterns leaders don’t see because no one’s saying them out loud. But the costs? You're absolutely paying for them.
1. Assumed Clarity
Managers assume roles are clear, employees don’t know who’s doing what, and won’t say so to avoid looking unqualified.
2. Unspoken Workarounds
Processes are broken, so the team silently patches gaps, the fixes live in people’s heads, not in documentation.
3. ‘Fast-Paced’ Equals Reactive
What gets praised as hustle is often just chaos, if everything’s urgent, nothing’s under control.
70% of business disruptions are caused by internal operational failures, not external threats.
(Source: IBM, Ponemon Institute, 2020)
Blind spots don’t fix themselves. They compound, until clients leave, audits fail, or top performers walk. But with the right structure, they become solvable patterns, not expensive surprises.
If this hit a little too close to home, it’s not by accident. Let’s talk about what’s been hiding in plain sight.
By L. Jones, Operational Risk Strategist at Laray Business Strategies
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