Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Without trust, you get nowhere.&# – Jack Trout “Everything in marketing points to the reality that the profitable companies are those that have earned the confidence of their public. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Trust Tagged: | collaboration , commerce , confidence , credibility , Speed of Trust , Stephen M.R.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Part of the draw of self-managing organizations, like those we explore in our recent HBR article , is their promise to free us from the disease of micromanagement. Before we get to what works, let’s consider what micromanaging really is and what puts you at risk of doing it. How do you avoid falling into micromanagement?

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday by Kevin Eikenberry on September 27, 2010 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning In the course of your day as a leader you are faced with many decisions. Decide to lead by example.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

Effective leadership can be thought of as a set of qualities and skills. But there are certain traits that lie at the core of leadership–the qualities that all great leaders share. Developing the elements that make up leadership is a lifelong process. Decisive leadership avoids stagnation and vacillation.

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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. Among his many examples of loutish behavior was throwing a chair across the basketball floor during a game. Both were perfectionists and micromanagers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Develop strategic leadership skills. His stress mounted as he micromanaged their work and got “stuck in the weeds” of low-level tasks. As he did so, his stress evaporated and he led the executive team to take a bold step toward expanding the business into a complex but potentially lucrative overseas market.

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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.

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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

APRIL 6, 2017

You can, for example, zero-base meeting calendars to determine which meetings are really necessary, how frequently they should be scheduled, how long they last and who really needs to attend. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. They get better at devoting attention and providing support — without micromanaging. Let’s look at an example that shows all these principles in action. Make it a stretch.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Instead, Alibaba is what you get if you take every function associated with retail and coordinate them online into a sprawling, data-driven network of sellers, marketers, service providers, logistics companies, and manufacturers. The job of leadership is not to manage this experiment, but to make it possible and boost its success rate.”

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

Daily headlines are crowded with examples of hypocrisy, selective obedience, victimhood, projected blame, and a general lack of self-awareness. For example, if you believe you’re going to be successful, you’re going to view your prospects differently than if you think, “People like me never stand a chance.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

Set the example. But don’t micromanage, Cohen warns. For example, “if you send [someone] an assignment on Friday afternoon, be clear whether you want him to be working on it over the weekend or if it can wait till Monday. Don’t: Micromanage. Here are some tips to ensure that your team works productively.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

There's a reason why great chefs visit the farms and markets that source their restaurants: The raw ingredients are critical to success. At one global telecommunications giant, for example, a critical network software upgrade was not only slipping further behind schedule, but the bug density was slowly creeping up, as well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". Consider one example from U.S. For example, the doctrine related to helicopters is nested inside doctrine related to the military's network-centric approach to warfighting. What were the lines to paint on the road?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

There is no single greater influence over the success of the sales organization than how the sales leadership creates the sales culture and environment for the people who will work for them. In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. Competitive but Cohesive Team.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

To compete in global markets, you need global talent. In this increasingly connected world, you can’t limit your recruitment to local markets. For example, if you’re hiring for a project management position, you might prioritize the PMP certification over a resume. This can save you tons of micromanagement.

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