30 reasons for failure
- Unfavorable hereditary background
- Lack of a well-defined purpose in life
- Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity
- Insufficient education
- Lack of self-discipline
- Ill health
- Overeating of foods not conductive to health
- Wrong habits of thought; giving expression to negatives
- Lack of proper physical exercise
- An inadequate supply of fresh air, due to improper breathing.
- Unfavorable environmental influences during childhood
- Procrastination
- Lack of persistence
- Negative personality
- Lack of controlled sexual urge
- Uncontrolled desire for “something for nothing”
- Lack of a well defined power of decision
- One or more of the six basic fears
- Wrong selection of a mate in marriage
- Over-caution
- Wrong selection of associates in business
- Superstition and prejudice
- Wrong selection of a vocation
- Lack of concentration of effort
- The habit of indiscriminate spending
- Lack of enthusiasm
- Intolerance
- Intemperance
- Inability to cooperate with others
- Possession of power that was not acquired through self
- Intentional dishonesty
- Egotism and vanity
- Guessing instead of thinking
- Lack of capital
10 Causes fo failure in leadership
- Inability to organize details
- Unwillingness to render humble service
- Expectation of pay for what they know instead of what they do with that which they know
- Fear of competition from followers
- Lack of imagination
- Selfishness
- Intemperance
- Disloyalty
- Emphasis of the authority of leadership
- emphasis of title
according to the book “think and grow rich”. Seems to me a pretty good list.