Leadership 101: Don't be so obvious about the stuff that actually matters to you

Here's something I've run into for pretty much the entire 12-13 years I've been working: oftentimes, senior leaders -- people at the top of a silo within an organization, or an organization as a whole -- clearly have things they care about and things they don't. Usually this corresponds to revenue (in the A-Category) and "soft skills" (in the B-Category…