Leadership labels: too decisive, too blunt, too guarded, too controlling Someone called you decisive once. Or blunt. Or guarded. Or controlling. It probably wasn’t meant as a compliment. If you’ve been given one of these leadership labels, here’s the short answer: it rarely means stop. It usually means the behaviour landed at the wrong moment for the person describing it. The work isn’t to remove that part of you. It’s to learn exactly when it serves the room, and when it doe