July 29, 2025
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Leadership Freak: The 5 Blind Spots Every Leader Has

I’m honored to be featured on Leadership Freak, where Dan Rockwell shared five of the most common leadership blind spots—and how to recognize them before they become costly mistakes. His post draws directly from ideas in Blindspotting, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the thoughtful spotlight.

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Dan Rockwell highlights five leadership blind spots and how to fix them

Dan has an incredible gift for distilling leadership lessons into sharp, actionable insights. In this post, he zeroes in on five blind spots that I see all the time in coaching: assuming your strengths are always strengths, skipping emotional awareness, failing to evolve your identity, ignoring feedback, and underestimating how others experience you.

These blind spots don’t stem from incompetence—they come from overrelying on what’s always worked in the past. That’s why they’re so hard to see. Dan’s summary offers leaders a way to step back, reflect, and reorient before small cracks become serious problems. I’m grateful to have Blindspotting included in his ongoing effort to help leaders grow with integrity and self-awareness.

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Martin Dubin

Entrepreneur, Writer and Speaker

Martin Dubin is a clinical psychologist turned serial entrepreneur and trusted adviser to C-suite leaders and Silicon Valley founders. He’s built multimillion-dollar companies, led as CEO, and coached hundreds of senior executives at Fortune 500s and top venture-backed startups.

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