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How to Get Your Micromanager Boss to Back Off

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When you anticipate what they need, you can get ahead of the curve of the stream of requests for information and updates that micromanagers engage in. Remember, leadership rocks roll downhill.) Train – Who’s going to train your boss how to not micromanage? Who is their boss? What do they expect from your boss? Anticipate.

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Thrown Under the Bus. That's Not Leadership.

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Thats Not Leadership. Posted by Scott Eblin on July 21, 2010 in Current Affairs , Leadership , Personal Presence | Permalink Technorati Tags : NAACP , Shirley Sherrod , under the bus , USDA TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Thrown Under the Bus. Thats Not Leadership.

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Viva Chile: Leadership and the Rescue of the Miners

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Last month, I wrote a post on What We Can Learn About Leadership from the Chilean Miners. Much like the astronauts of Apollo 13, they showed grace and calm under pressure, maintained their discipline, drew on their training and supported each other to get through a crisis.

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Lessons from the TSA on Communicating Change

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Don’t create information vacuums:   In the run up to the body scan and pat down changes,  the TSA declined to comment on what is different about the pat down procedure or how agents were trained to conduct them. Train and support your people to do the same.   If anything, it was faster. .  Click Here.

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Four Steps for Making Better Decisions

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specialist field is improving onjob employee performance without training courses. Do I have your permission to mention the process you described on my blog and refer people to you for more information? Posted by: Scott Eblin | January 17, 2011 at 05:02 PM G'Day Scott, I work with owners and managers in small-medium business.My

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Fear Kills

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Thats Not Leadership. I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come. Create ways to gather information around silos and organizational channels. In either case, Id love to hear your thoughts over the next few days. And act on what you learn.