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Great post! Many of the points resonate with my own experience with ineffective leadership. As for the others, I've been fortunately enough to avoid them. Not giving credit where it's due (or worse yet -- taking it for themselves) is another toxic leadership trait I've seen that builds resentment, and depletes morale, leading to negative results.