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The Trouble with Control

Great Leadership By Dan

And it’s not just the nemesis of new, inexperience managers who are nervous and learning to use their delegation skills. But too often, it just gums up the works as things grind to halt waiting for executive review. This is practice at many large organizations who have to review thousands of resumes.

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Why Aren't You Delegating?

Harvard Business Review

But there is: delegation. Delegation is a critical skill. Delegation benefits managers, direct reports, and organizations. A 2007 study on time management found that close to half of the 332 companies surveyed were concerned about their employees' delegation skills. Understand why you're not delegating.

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What to Do When an Online Community Starts to Fail

Harvard Business Review

And yet scale is no guarantee of sustainability, as two recent examples illustrate. As the HBS case study on Yelp details, the company’s early success was based in part on the creation of the “Elite Squad,” a user group in the “low thousands” whose active participation was rewarded by invitation to parties in their cities.

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How to Get Feedback When You're the Boss

Harvard Business Review

Ask for feedback on a regular basis, not just at review time. Request examples. In the same way that you want to give concrete examples when giving feedback, you should also request them when you are receiving it. Hill suggests, for example, that you ask five or six people the same question. "You Ask for it, constantly.

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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

For example, if your position involves menial tasks, try to remember they are stepping stones to a longer term goal and you won't be doing them forever. 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.

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What Knowledge Workers Stand to Gain from Automation

Harvard Business Review

For example, it is a systemantic problem that the typical automated operations system (including Enterprise Resourcing Planning, Customer Relationship Management, e-commerce, and e-business solution systems) is unable to complete a whole process, end-to-end. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Stop Procrastinating.Now

Harvard Business Review

Regina Conti, an associate professor of psychology at Colgate University and an expert in motivation, provides the example of doing your taxes. "A Or, look for an example of the project you are working on to use as a starting point. Asking someone to review your work can spur you to get started knowing they will expect it.

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