Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

Micromanaging is a hard habit to break. If you’re the kind of boss who lasers in on details, prefers to be cc’ed on emails, and is rarely satisfied with your team’s work, then—there’s no kind way to say this— you’re a micromanager. How should you prioritize what matters?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

If Dimon had seen those positions — naked and unsummarized — back then, could his bank have saved itself and its CEO a lot of money and embarrassment? There's a reason why great chefs visit the farms and markets that source their restaurants: The raw ingredients are critical to success. Is this micromanagement?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

If your company had just announced a 27% increase in revenues in this market, you'd probably be quite happy. And you'd think the market would be, too. Like many other companies that have a core product line, Google is struggling to find its next market. That's all stuff CEOs are expected to do. Giddy even. And so on.).

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Yet even with all that knowledge and effort, many private equity companies still don’t do a good job when it comes to deciding whether to keep the CEO in place or select a new CEO. Too many CEOs fall short of these skills. Here are the most common CEO selection mistakes we see.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

The non-family CEO – selected by the father – had gotten used to running the company with minimal direction. This is important: in the absence of the rigor of the market place, dividend policy is a means of enforcing discipline on management through the constraint on resources that management can access for the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend. tyler garrison/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Does your CEO remind you of your bullying older brother? Watch out: Chances are your CEO is recreating the very same dynamics that shaped his early family life. The entire executive team, and its mission, may suffer unless the CEO recognizes it and takes conscious steps to change his subconscious behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

The third-generation CEO of a family business, my client experienced severe stress as his executive team (comprised of older family members) lambasted his every decision about how to run the company. Feeling defensive, he retreated from key CEO tasks such as strategic planning and securing a line of credit to keep the business afloat.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Tech CEO Marissa Mayer and Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have it tough right now. Why Are We So Hard on Female CEOs? Two new books illuminate the challenges still facing female CEOs. There’s no doubt that both leaders have made mistakes. Further Reading. Leadership. Magazine Article. Amy Bernstein. Amy Bernstein.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Every leader knows that they shouldn’t micromanage — even if some of us still do. But while we understand the downsides of micromanaging and taken action to avoid it, we still haven’t sufficiently embraced the upsides of not micromanaging. Exist at the macro and micro-levels simultaneously.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Though they may sound like an exercise in micromanagement, they are actually the opposite. Micro-battles are all about using these fast test-and-learn cycles to innovate—developing new products, opening new markets, figuring out better ways to do things. Instead, the CEO asked: “So whose idea was this thing?”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

As I approach the 10-year anniversary of HubSpot, the marketing and sales software firm of which I’m CEO, I’ve been reflecting back on the decisions I’ve made — both right and wrong. Target personas go beyond the demographics and psychographics normally associated with target markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

I believe that Steve Jobs was among the best CEOs of this generation because he created entirely new categories six times in a decade, and built the largest company market cap ever. Jobs would make decisive decisions on large and small issues and again and again would be proved right by the market or technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

News this week that Uber’s CEO was stepping down likely was not a surprise to those who have been following the company in the headlines. Individual founders can become a barrier to growth if they are unable to let go of the details and micromanage, or fail to build a cohesive team around them, or allow hubris to get in their way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

You can’t micromanage your way to growth,” says Dr. Mary Jo Gorman, founder and CEO of Advanced ICU Care, which provides high-quality critical care to patients in intensive care units. A member of the 2011 North American class of Entrepreneurial Winning Women, Gorman says, “This is more than delegating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” ” Health care.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

But don’t micromanage, Cohen warns. Don’t: Micromanage. Once those were clear in his own mind, David scheduled one-on-one conversations with his team members, including the heads of finance, marketing, and HR. “Help him understand the quality of the work you’re expecting,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

” Back then I was managing sizable projects like the company’s annual report, working with CEOs, CFOs, and the like, so I’d ask: “But doesn’t it make more sense not to judge my personality, but to judge results? Do people generally like working for me?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

To be clear, I agree with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who recently acknowledged that net neutrality principles have been and will continue to be strictly enforced not by regulation but by powerful market forces. But the legal designation of a “public utility” is more than just an acknowledgment of that importance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

And don’t micromanage. Jon Stein, the CEO and founder of Betterment, the online financial adviser, says that he’s been “lucky to have a number of stars” on his team over the years. “Demonstrate trust by delegating authority and responsibility” over certain projects and tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Nathaniel Koloc, the CEO of ReWork , which provides recruiting services to companies that offer purposeful work, says that’s because no one really ever teaches us how: “Very few parents, teachers, and mentors urge us to think about this or give us mental models to use,” he says. What the Experts Say. ” Freedom.

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