What is the link between leadership and self- awareness? Eighty to ninety percent of the time, most effective leaders have good self-awareness. The problem is the 10-20% of the time when leaders might not realise how negatively their behaviour is being perceived by followers. Most of the time, the leader has good intentions behind what he does or says, or how he behaves toward others. But the impact that followers per- ceive might not always align with those good inten tions. I call this the mismatch of intent vs impact. Let's look at an example. In one company, the CEO leads an executive committee meeting(excom) once a month. The participants are the 10 depart- ment heads who report directly to him. Last month, the chief financial officer introduced