Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Instead, employees […] Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Instead, employees self-manage and belong to different decision-making circles that keep the company operating.”

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

They spend their time on day-to-day operations without ever articulating a vision. Effective leaders understand the power of an inspiring, purposeful vision in getting great work from their teams. They’re everywhere, it seems, and their micromanagement cuts off all the oxygen to productivity. Lack of delegation.

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How To Delegation Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 157

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

3 Ideas for working with team change. Involve the team. Bringing the team together and involving them in the change. You involve the team by going to them early and sharing the needed change…asking for their help and input then actually using their ideas. Example – I did this with a team of Machinists.

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Resistance Franchising Power Management 141

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

When data is sufficiently large, it is utilized to train algorithms that predict talents and capabilities; screen performance; set and survey work outputs; link workforce to various state of emotions; provide training and development; search for patterns across various teams; and more. How does AI become key to this dynamic?

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

Or, “Every time I lead a meeting with the financial team they just sit there and stare at me; they never offer anything useful.”. When coaching teams and individuals , many complaints come to the surface. All this does is point to resistance and reinforce the teams’ view of the resistor. On and on and on…. There is an exception.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2019

In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, agile, innovative businesses that are able to attract and retain talent, are those with the greatest chance of success. There is no place for micromanagement. This is vital for both company innovation and the progress and development of staff. Learning and problem-solving.

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Agility Morale Belief Systems Micromanagement 64

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. In our book, we provide numerous examples of agility.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 92

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

Because micromanagement, the opposite of autonomy and the default behavior for many managers, puts people in a threatened state. The “Why” of Everyday Work People do not have just one way of operating. Autonomy at the Front Line Why does autonomy make such a difference? Copyright ©2014 PwC. All rights reserved.

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Motivation Proposal Stress Goal 279

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

The class is full, but don’t worry, if you are interested contact me and let’s talk about brining the content and lessons to your organization, team and people. OR “The engineers are always so smug and condescending with the sales team, don’t they understand the pressure we are under!?” I cannot stand to work with that person.”

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Cooper Resistance Micromanagement Construction 124

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Annoyed by this micromanagement, he immediately responds with his uncensored thoughts. On the weekly team conference call, a remote team member is confused about whether her colleague is really “ on mute ” when she delays a response to a question or if she ’ s just not paying attention and is using this as an excuse.

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Team How To Conference Micromanagement 18

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

This makes sense: leaders spend 70-90% of their time in group or team interactions every day. Leaders spend 70 to 90 percent of their time in group or team interactions every day. Completely distributed teams working from home mean that you couldn’t micromanage even if you wanted to. Collaboration. What should we do?”.

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Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 110

LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

I fact, I should fess up, there are now four of us fully employed, and their are a team of about 4 or 5 things that we have virtually. It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. That was a fun mental shift for me.

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Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Since its inception, in 1995, ghSMART has been a firm with a completely remote team. More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. Having remote team members requires that we hire people who can deliver technically while working independently.

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Team Organization Management Consultative 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“Think of the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice presidents devote to supervising the work of others.” Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage. That way, the operation can be fully justifiable, one that runs the same way year in and out. pchyburrs/Getty Images.

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Fayol Management Hamel Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The candidate unit should have low staff churn — the movement of staff in and out of job roles — which makes it easier to train teams. The unit should have a respected local champion who can build excitement for change, encourage participation, coach the team, and celebrate success. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Health Care System Metrics Operations 8

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 13, 2021

The very act of leadership is one whereby leaders are expected to lead by example, but nonetheless, it’s rare for leaders to actually show how things should be done to their teams. Moving beyond micromanaging. This is far more practical and hands-on. Employees thus infer appropriate behaviors and performance expectations.

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Examples Micromanagement Retail Analysis 140

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. He launched eight transformation teams (e.g.,

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Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Founders tend to use their personal charisma and technical smarts to rally their teams, and that can work while a business is small. But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Founders who recognize this bring in partners whose skills complement their own.

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Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. He held them accountable for meeting sizable improvements, but he also supported the team during challenging periods.

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

At their best, companies realize that not everything is easily measurable, or should be measured, and that constant temperature taking and micromanagement are inefficient and demoralizing. Employees and teams know they will be held accountable, and they know where the guardrails are.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Span of Control Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

The nature of my, and eventually my team's, network meant that, in the first few years, probably half of our employees were gay. The business books would advise me to micromanage less, delegate more. Important information to have before you judge yourself or anyone else as being too much of a micromanager. I was taken aback.

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Micromanagement Open-book Entrepreneur Delegation 15

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When we talk about good leadership, the cliche that “there’s no ‘I’ in team” couldn’t be more accurate, albeit a little overdone. It’s really about encouraging and empowering a team to come along for the journey and to all want to do their bit to accomplish a common goal for the good of everyone involved. Let’s explore this further.

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Power Leadership Leadership Styles Long-term 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Covey writes in The Speed of Trust , “When trust goes down (in a relationship, on a team, in an organization, or with a partner or customer), speed goes down and cost goes up.… For example, ask when the person has tackled extra work to help their organization or team meet critical goals. As Stephen M.

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Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 13

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his These fads ironically lead to micromanaging and, often, to disaster.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368