The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2016

Debbie Laskey is one of my go-to experts when I seek advice about a number of business topics, including marketing, social media, and nonprofit marketing and leadership. If they do, they need to enter the 21st century and understand that the communications specialty is just one aspect of an overall marketing plan.

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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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McGregor Micromanagement Leadership Performance Review 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When companies do find a way to recapture the insurgent energy of a start-up, it’s usually because leadership has emphasized two things. Though they may sound like an exercise in micromanagement, they are actually the opposite. Most leaders, in fact, have been trained not to trust those around them. The first is clarity.

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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. Leadership also wanted to improve service delivered to property taxpayers and municipalities.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

” Elizabeth Grace Saunders, author of How to Invest Your Time Like Money and the founder of Real Life E Time Coaching & Training , agrees. But don’t micromanage, Cohen warns. Don’t: Micromanage. “The job of senior leadership is to align resources around priorities,” he says.

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Productivity Products How To Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

And don’t micromanage. ” If a formal promotion is not possible, or your employee is not quite ready for one , think creatively about ways to sharpen her leadership skills. “Give her training responsibilities,” she adds. “Give her discretion in how she does the work.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? All one has to do is watch a very bright person defend their position to understand what I’m driving at with today’s post.

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