* Acting as if employees are fungible rather than taking advantage of their relative strengths * Short-term thinking ("we don't have time to fix the tech debt,

* Acting as if employees are fungible rather than taking advantage of their relative strengths * Short-term thinking ("we don't have time to fix the tech debt, we have to get something on the board this quarter") * Over-resourcing projects from the start, rather than letting a small number of employees germinate it and set it on the right path * Punishing people, often indirectly, for taking risks, conducting experiments, doing quick prototypes, etc * Frequent shifts in direction, priority or emphasis. If "everything" is important at one time or another, then nothing truly is