As a leader or manager you are in a position where you have more impact than most. While your intention will always be for that impact to be positive, sometimes it’s affected by factors you may not be aware of. Your reputation for example. If you have a reputation for being strong or principled, then chances are your words and your directions will have more impact than someone with a reputation for not walking the talk. Where there’s a misalignment, problems will arise. They may be small or they may be not so small but they will be problems nevertheless. In our work lately we’ve come across a number of situations where there was a misalignment between how managers perceive themselves vs how others perceive them. Almost always this creates friction within the team. This comes to light through a number of 360 degree feedback or profiling tools that we use such as the MBTI [http://bit.ly/2vbZYsS], LSI/OCI [http://bit.ly/2uFFHvT] and others.