1) Your people only work hard when they know you are watching. Good managers motivate people to do what needs to be done because they have been properly trained and motivated. Good managers have people who perform well because they want to perform well. If you act one way when your boss is present and another way when he or she is not present, then this only serves to make them behave in the same way towards you.
2) Your employees don't respect you. You would think this one could be assumed. But people don't respect managers who are blatantly self-serving. A good manager doesn't enjoy the best schedule and he doesn't manipulate the schedule to his personal desires or interests. He is willing to work weekends, evenings, and long days just like everybody else. A good manager will take on unpleasant jobs and demonstrate his willingness to perform any task he asks others to do. He treats others with respect and then he receives respect in return.
3) Your employees know that you're a ladder climber. Ladder climbers will reach the next rung by stepping on anyone's back who an hoist him up. If your attitude is "to hell with everybody else as long as I get mine" your employees will most probably know it.
4) You display an arrogant and/or dismissive attitude towards your employees. This is a major turn off and will make you an ineffective leader who is universally disliked by the very people you are supposed to be leading.
5) You rarely show your face outside of the confines of your office. If your members have seen your photo at the exit, but have never seen you anywhere in the club, then this one applies. Enough said.
6) You consider good, long-term associates to be an expense rather than an asset. These managers do all they can to intentionally get rid of their best trained people. They are willing to sacrifice talent in an effort to boost the bottom line in time for the next quarterly results. These are some of the most toxic and most prevalent bad managers in the company.
7) None of your employees like you. It is normal to have a few people dislike you in an operation the size of a Sam's Club. If fact, if everybody likes you, then you are probably not doing your job. But if nobody likes you or only a select few like you, then you have lost their respect for one or more of the above reasons. Good leaders serve as mentors, and a good employee will respect , and most probably even like, his or her mentor.
8) You lead by intimidation. Sam Walton called this method of management "chicken management". Sam Walton was quoted as saying, "The way management treats associates is exactly how associates will treat customers". Many managers would have empty clubs on Black Friday if their associates treated members as they are treated by management.
9) You hold metrics above all else in order of importance. For example, you can only require the effort to sell upgrades or credit. Actual results are harder to get. We all know that often you can't make the sale no matter what you say or do. If your people are trying and your response is to figuratively just beat them harder, then this one applies to you.
10) Your initials are LM, TK, or JQ.