Mike Cardus

MARCH 3, 2011

Leadership Coaching & Development Case Study from the Exponent Leadership Process. “I I further coached the people who were delegated the different pieces of this organizational re-structure. I am finding it challenging aligning and getting the best out of my staff. Managing Across Generations. Decision Making.

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Succession Management Leadership FAQ 125

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. Review of material, taking notes, seeking supplementary materials and questing to learn additionally must occur. Periodically, the material is reviewed. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management.

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

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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Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

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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Maturity Case Study Mentor Information Technology 8

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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Kaplan Management How To Self-aware 14

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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360-Degree Feedback How To Construction Case Study 15

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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Contract Manufacturing Case Study Delegation Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Case Study #1: Set realistic work goals with the employee and delegate some of their work. In each case, she endeavored to make as many allowances as possible, and the women used sick time, flex time, and personal days. ” Case Study #2: Act with compassion and offer flexibility if possible.

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Crisis Management How To Stress 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Going beyond logical-based arguments and case study proof, Kauffman eloquently describes how machine algorithms, even based on the most sophisticated foreseeable AI technologies, can only solve problems which are bounded by prestated assumptions. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

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Drucker Technology Efficiency Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Even where a particular tedious task is not being performed by a very large number of people, RPA can economically delegate the task to robots. Another case study subject, a large UK-based utility, deployed more than 300 robots that process three million transactions per quarter, yielding an annual return on investment of 200 percent.

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Case Study Software Process Operations 8

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. Case study #2: Keep it top of mind. But since she had no one to delegate the project to, she decided to make progress on it in small increments.

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Project Case Study Short-term Learning-by-Doing 17

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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How To Reputation Case Study Advice 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

“Demonstrate trust by delegating authority and responsibility” over certain projects and tasks. Demonstrate trust by delegating responsibility over certain projects and letting your star decide how she does the work. ” Case Study # 2: Find out what motivates your star, and empower her to advance.

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Management How To Project Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > In order to understand how firms have systematically enhanced trust in applied AI, my colleagues Monika Hengstler and Selina Duelli and I conducted nine case studies in the transportation and medical device industries.

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Technology Transportation Influence Resistance 9

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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Management How To McCombs Project 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

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. He reviewed and edited drafts and offered feedback. ” Case study #2: Break big goals up into small action items.

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Goal CAGR Career Open-book 12

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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How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2017

Your goal is to identify “projects that can be delayed, delegated, deleted, or diminished.” Case Study #1: Offer solutions and be open to advice. I needed to improve my delegation capabilities and get out of the way so my team members could do their jobs.” ” Set priorities.

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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. Case Study #1: Create open lines of communication and respect your team’s downtime. ” Case Study #2: Communicate expectations and track progress.

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Productivity Products How To Micromanagement 8

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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Management Emotional Intelligence Maturity Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Prepare a list of your core responsibilities, dividing them into the tasks that can be assumed by others and those that aren’t so easy to delegate, such as client relationships, expertise-related functions, and mentorship of direct reports. Case study #1: Continue to help others grow professionally. Develop a game plan.

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How To Guidelines Case Study Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

For managers, that means delegating tasks and granting as much autonomy as possible, while also making it clear what your expectations are and how performance will be measured. Case Study #1: Keep the door open. Case Study #2: Meet bad news head on. “You have to motivate them to do it.” There is camaraderie.”.

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Survey Case Study Metrics Goal 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Case Study #1: Using multiple mentors. Her first thought was of Ewa Ställdal, the CEO of a major medical research foundation that she had met several years previously on a delegation trip to the US with the Swedish Ministry of Industry. Case Study #2: When you think you don't need it.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

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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Micromanagement Team How To Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In Friedman's book, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life , he talks about nine different types of experiments — everything from working remotely to delegating — you can use to gently introduce flexibility into your work life. Case Study #1: Creating a unique job share.

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Proposal Case Study Policies Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

About two weeks before your leave is over, Williams recommends calling your boss to set up a one-hour meeting to review your transition-back plan. Case Study #1: Give team members time to process what will be expected of them. ” Case Study #2: Work collaboratively with your team on a workload plan.

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Planning Quinn Project Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Case Study #1: Show respect for the idea. In my case, the reason was timing,” Victor says. Case Study #2: Make it about the company, not you. But “as leaders, this was a decision I felt we should be making rather than delegating it to the whole staff,” Mike explains.

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Power How To Proposal Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Dillon says she once told a strong performer on her team that she would review his raise request three months after she initially denied it, but then “completely forgot” about the conversation. ” Case Study #2: Make the case for retention. “We talked it through enough that he’s on board.

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How To COO Report Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His struggle to transform the Johnsonville Sausage Company into a beacon of enlightened business was chronicled widely and became a best-selling case study. I enjoyed teaching that case for many years. Issues have to be sorted out rather than delegated up. .” Stayer soon became the darling of management gurus.

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Management Long-term System Delegation 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. Case Study #1: Empathize with your manager’s perspective and ask for their guidance. It also increases their investment in you.” Harp on your boss’s annoying habits.

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Bond Case Study Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Respondents cited the need for founders of technology startups to have other leadership skills, in particular: (1) openness to receiving feedback without being defensive; and (2) the ability to prioritize, including knowing what to delegate and what to do yourself. A respondent added, “This is all theory until you do it.

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Engineering Finance Survey Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2017

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. MedRec doesn’t store health records or require a change in practice.

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