Skip Prichard

JULY 21, 2021

For example, someone in a different department may be tardy arriving to work each day, or they may be habitually late arriving for the weekly staff meeting. Micromanaging. If you don’t want others to be jerks at work, then you should set a positive example for others to follow. How do you know whether to go to HR?

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. If you micromanage, you’ll have employees that wait for instructions every step of the way and will not use their own resources. This is a fine line to walk as a leader.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In a grand example of the breakdown between management and workers, Hostess Brands recently declared bankruptcy after failed negotiations with its striking workers. They gather and develop the talent in their organization, and are able to delegate tasks, and not micromanage. Great leaders trust the people under them. Cool under fire.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

Identify the prima donnas and micromanaging control freaks, the whiners, complainers, and blamers. The point here is that you set lead by example. ’ He is the President of Human Asset Management LLC, a human resource consulting firm specializing in executive search and leadership training. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Yet, according to the Association of Test Publishers, the Society for Human Resources, and the publisher of the Myers-Briggs, these assessments are still administered millions of times per year for personnel selection, executive coaching, team building and conflict resolution. So might any of us.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

” Good management practices should already be in place — for example, effective budget practices and a stable staff schedule. Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Management “hygiene.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. Taylor, the 19th century guru of time and motion studies, which were used by management to micromanage workers; to tell them not only what to do but also how to do it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

It influences whether they have close or distant relationships with the people who report to them, communicate directly or indirectly, micromanage or empower, encourage debates or shut them down. For example, the smaller an executive’s original family, the less effort he made in building wide relations with the executive team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

For example, Sir Alex Ferguson, the legendary Manchester United coach, famously recommended David Moyes as his successor despite the fact that he had never managed a big club or won a trophy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In a tragic example, at a Dutch energy supplier that used rigorous, transparent safety standards to deal with toxic waste, employees came to work one day to find the company’s safety officer dead of a workplace accident. Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

For instance, Gil Amelio was Apple’s CEO for less than a year in 1997, and General Motors’ chief human resources officer decamped in 2018 after just eight months in the job. The new situation left her feeling “micromanaged,” and she moved on two years later.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

For example, traditional leadership training often focused on rule enforcement, which is akin to parent-child communication and not how trustworthy adults function. For example, ask when the person has tackled extra work to help their organization or team meet critical goals. So ask questions that determine character.

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