Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

. “You may be very compassionate but you may be in a company where that’s not the way it works,” says Hill. But also be sure you understand your company’s restrictions on short- and long-term leave, and what, if any, bureaucratic hurdles exist before promising anything to your employee.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Delegating work to your team may sound like a straightforward task of management, but, in fact, it’s complicated. ” Morgenstern suggests setting aside one or two hours at the end of each week for “delegation strategy and review.” How do you make sure that work on your team is evenly distributed?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

They tend to be impatient with or hypercritical of others and they're not good at delegating. "On Accept that they may not be good managers as they are likely to demand too much of their people (see "hypercritical" and "bad at delegating" above). Case Study #1: Find a better job fit. Case Study #2: Redirect the focus.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Some people make radical moves; others make small changes" in how they delegate or schedule their day, Wrzesniewski says. Case Study #1: Integrate your interests into the job. Still most of his tasks — managing schedules, developing contracts, reviewing documentation — involved working alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Ask for feedback on a regular basis, not just at review time. When someone tells you, "You run our team meetings really well," or "You don't delegate enough," follow up by asking for an example. One way to get around this is by doing a 360-degree review or using a coach to gather feedback anonymously. Ask for it, constantly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

In these cases, “you need to help your boss sort through the information” and then offer “a clear rationale for your recommendation.” ” It’s also helpful to “enable your boss to delegate to you without formality,” says Finkelstein. “I was junior in my career, and I blamed myself.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Additionally, trust in the company designing the AI, and the way the way the firm communicates with customers, will influence whether the technology is adopted by customers. Too many high-tech companies wrongly assume that the quality of the technology alone will influence people to use it.

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Technology Transportation Influence Resistance 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

It is by now an obvious statement that companies compete on the strengths of their knowledge workers – people who “think for a living” by applying convergent, divergent, and creative thinking skills. Largely to blame is the approach their companies have taken in applying office technologies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

“For most companies and individuals, it’s hard to think five years ahead,” he says. If, for instance, your goal is to reduce your micro-managerial tendencies, explain to your team that you will be delegating more often. Case study #1: Create a detailed strategy and enlist support.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

“Demonstrate trust by delegating authority and responsibility” over certain projects and tasks. Don’t lose her to another company, though. Demonstrate trust by delegating responsibility over certain projects and letting your star decide how she does the work. And don’t micromanage. Hoard talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Asking someone to review your work can spur you to get started knowing they will expect it. Case study #1: Know why. Lisa Freitag, a marketing consultant for an online company based in Silicon Valley, noticed she was putting off planning on a major marketing event. Case study #2: Keep it top of mind.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

“When someone doesn’t have the confidence to be proactive or to take on what you’re asking them to take on, you can’t just delegate and move on,” she says. Case Study #1: Help your employee feel comfortable and emphasize the importance of learning. A bit of handholding may be necessary. Be a martyr.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

Managers will never learn the truth about a company unless they have employees’ trust,” explains Jim Dougherty, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and veteran software CEO. Share as much as you can about the current health and future goals of the company. Case Study #1: Keep the door open.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Part of running a 21st-century company with a 21st-century work force is establishing systems that allow for women to go out and return from maternity leave with minimal impact on the company or on their careers,” says Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Case Study #1: Seek encouragement and reset your colleagues’ expectations. ” Case Study #2: Take control of your use of electronics. ” As a founder, Mareza used to be always “on call” for emergencies, but since the company has grown he delegates noncritical issues to colleagues on weekends.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

” Here’s how to carefully navigate the conversation to get the best possible outcome for you, the employee, and your company. and the open market­ (Does a person doing this job in another company get similar pay?). Dillon says you should also consider how important the person is to you, your team, and the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

. “Our bodies specialize in survival, so we have a natural bias to avoid situations that might harm us,” says Joseph Grenny, the coauthor of Crucial Conversations and the cofounder of VitalSmarts , a corporate training company. Case Study #1: Show respect for the idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. The purpose of a company, he proclaimed, was not to make money; it was to help its members (Stayer banned the term employee) thrive. Life is aspiration.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The reality is that while flexible work arrangements have become more popular, few companies have an official policy or program. It just means the onus is on you to propose a plan that works for you, your boss and your company. If your company doesn't have a formal policy, you'll need to create a proposal yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2017

“At most organizations, companies are trying to make do with less, so there is more work to do than there is time to do it.” “You are partnering with your boss to fulfill the company’s goals.” Your goal is to identify “projects that can be delayed, delegated, deleted, or diminished.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

To achieve this, you need to be able to delegate in order to concentrate on your team members. This issue reminds us of the many famous case studies of leaders who are clearly brilliant from an expertise or competence standpoint, but morally feeble: Sepp Blatter, Bernie Madoff, and Pablo Escobar come to mind.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

“A good manager trains and delegates,” says Dillon, and you can’t do that if you’re taking on everything—regardless of how important the task is—yourself. Case Study #1: Clarify your priorities. He now knows to be more explicit about his reasons when he’s delegating certain tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

The key to improving individual productivity is to eliminate or delegate unimportant tasks and replace them with value-added ones, says Cohen. Even if your company’s culture is more relaxed, it’s still important to communicate when you expect your reports to work and when you don’t, Saunders adds. Or is it the person?

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Productivity Products How To Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

While it’s “illegal for a company to ask you to work on your leave,” says Williams, “it’s practical and considerate to let your colleagues know that you’re reachable.” Case Study #1: Give team members time to process what will be expected of them. ” Establish boundaries.

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Planning Quinn Project Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

“You don’t want your boss to think you’re delegating back up or putting the problem back on them,” she says. Though “it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to leave the company.” Case Study #1: Empathize with your manager’s perspective and ask for their guidance.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2019

The business world is one which is highly competitive, which means that a company must always be looking for ways to grown order to stay ahead of the competition. Here are a few different ways that even a big company can grow. It is impossible to grow a company without the right people powering the operation. Case studies.

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Industry Customer Loyalty How To Loyalty 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Just as the notion of a 50-year linear career with a single company or in one industry is outdated, so is the idea that career advice must come from a wise old sage. Case Study #1: Using multiple mentors. In January 2000, Soki Choi left Accenture Sweden to start her own company developing applications for mobile phones.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2017

Today humans manually attempt to reconcile medical data among clinics, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, and insurance companies. In our white paper, “A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare,” we proposed a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs using blockchain technology, which we called MedRec.

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