Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success and as a nationally syndicated columnist on leadership, I share my views on the traits of effective leaders. Situations will arise when decisions need to be made by your employees for which there is no operating procedure or precedent. Don’t micromanage. As the author of Be Different!

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

That’s one reason I was interested to talk with Leo Tilman and General Charles Jacoby, who co-wrote a new book, Agility: How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption. General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Like smart investment managers, smart people managers figure out how to shift their investment of time and energy from some parts of their portfolio so they can invest more in other parts where there is more potential for improvement. Stop Micromanaging your Exemplars – You know who the Exemplars on your team are.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2019

Being a business owner is a great career to have, but the position can also be stressful and overwhelming at times. The five steps below will give you more insight into what you can be doing on a regular basis to improve your office environment and run a smoother operation overall. Monitor Your Employee’s Actions. Delegate out Tasks.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Early in my business career, I worked as a team leader on a high-level project. I immediately doled out assignments, telling everyone exactly what to do and how to do it. I’ve learned through experience that micromanaging doesn’t work. I had what I thought were great ideas, and I was excited to jump in and get started.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That’s how they’re going to grow and develop. They may not do it exactly the same way you would do it, but at some point, earlier in your career, somebody took a bet on you and asked you to do some things that they used to do. To name a few, there’s financial risk, operational risk and reputational risk.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

While some of the victims who understand how to deal with workplace buying are able to walk over the challenge, more cases show that most workplace bullying victims, deeply affected, rarely recover from the knowledge that one or more persons believe they are no good. How to recognize bullying in the workplace?

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. Their raft might be micromanaging what gets done and how it gets done. Let’s be candid: That’s part of the job.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. They tend to work very closely with what I call operators, that’s the second natural style. Operators are the symbolic opposite of visionaries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It’s your job to figure out how to address the root cause. ” Perhaps this person “worked for a micromanager in the past, and she’s in the habit of double- and triple-checking with you.” She can give you some insight on how to handle the challenge you’re facing.’” More education?”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Thanks for sharing Elliot.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Passionate about medicine, he wanted to hire someone to run the business operations of his practice. In fact, almost all of the leaders we’ve talked to admit that they too have made a bad hire at some point during their careers. How to build a strong team. James is a leading ophthalmologist at a major medical clinic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. A woman executive who doesn't drink coffee never learned how to make it, thus saving many hours of time over the years while never being forced into coffee-service role early in her career. Not exactly your typical job.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. You don’t have well-defined career paths. ” He is a notorious micromanager. ” He is a notorious micromanager. Government Military Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. You don’t have well-defined career paths. ” He is a notorious micromanager. ” He is a notorious micromanager. Government Military Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Early in my career, it often felt like my naturally lower-stress, quiet management style was an impediment to advancement. She was highly experienced and capable and had grown tired of what she viewed as my overactive involvement in her operations. Overtly, most of us say we dislike stress.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

They are pragmatic and opportunistic, and know how to create a sense of urgency amongst their teams. They manage influence, figuring out who is impacted by change, what motivates them, and how they can be effectively engaged. Earlier in his career he worked at EDS (an IT services provider), where he learned how to run IT as a business.

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