Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Not only is this micromanaging behavior annoying, it can stunt your professional growth. By assuaging a micromanager's stress, you may be able to secure the autonomy you need to get your work done and advance your career. Micromanagers abound in today's organizations but typically, it has nothing to do with performance.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Considering the changing and difficult job market , the numbers aren’t surprising. They gather and develop the talent in their organization, and are able to delegate tasks, and not micromanage. Workers biggest complaints were on-the-job stress, insufficient benefits and low wages. Great leaders trust the people under them.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders says, “ Micromanaging is a dysfunctional behavior that most leaders fall into from time to time. and presents her post “ The Insiders Guide to Micromanagement ”. ( @LetsGrowLeaders ). So how do you know if you’re slipping into the micro management trap?” steveroesler ).

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 24, 2016

Of the many, many things that today’s leaders are expected to do, one of the most sought-after abilities in a leader is someone who can motivate and support those around them to bring their best selves to the work they do.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This should not deter you, and if anything, it should motivate you to be a better version of yourself. This means that if you have people on your team that can perform a certain task better than you, it takes away the need to micromanage them. economy was in a bull market. That’s the effect success has on people.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

Micromanaging is a hard habit to break. If you’re the kind of boss who lasers in on details, prefers to be cc’ed on emails, and is rarely satisfied with your team’s work, then—there’s no kind way to say this— you’re a micromanager. How should you prioritize what matters?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It’ll also give you that extra motivation, and help when the going gets tough, as it surely will at some stage. If all you want to do is micromanage them, then you’ll be doing your business a disservice. Other tasks to outsource include your payroll, marketing, and legal matters. An Inch of Courage.

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How To Outsourcing Entrepreneur Mentor 94

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Organizations should market the great things they are doing to educate the public on internal best practices. Kathy C presents 7 ways to do this in Leverage What You Do Right in Your Marketing Plan ! Anecdotally, we all know that micromanagers are a headache to work with. Gotta love a blog called Epic Living !

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2018

If someone has an outstanding performance on one job, but they underdeliver on other areas, you can identify the gaps in their skills and knowledge and provide them with support and training that will not only make them more valuable for the company, but also more motivated. Preventing Fraud. Better Quality. Improved Strategy.

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Supply Chain Management Quality Competitive Advantage 51

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Having goals is a proven way to encourage productivity and motivation, and can help you with your focus. Learn marketing through online resources, or the language of your biggest customers via DuoLingo. Learn delegation: Your business will never be able to move forward if you try to micromanage everything yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Every leader knows that they shouldn’t micromanage — even if some of us still do. But while we understand the downsides of micromanaging and taken action to avoid it, we still haven’t sufficiently embraced the upsides of not micromanaging.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling, full of meaning, and intrinsically motivating. You might feel micromanaged or that company leaders don’t know or care about your learning and growth. But what if they’re not? More people fit this profile than you’d think.

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Career Micromanagement Organizational Behavior Learning-by-Doing 15

Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

The worst thing a leader can do is to micromanage the talented people they have hired. Know how to keep everyone moving forward on task with motivation and inspiration while also being responsible and adaptable to change and new information. Every business, market and industry comes with its own set of problems and challenges.

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Leadership Motivation Micromanagement Active Listening 167

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

In misguided attempts to boost productivity and direct innovation, managers can kill both creativity and passion — the intrinsic motivation required to stay deeply engaged in work — by destroying people's autonomy. The VP of R&D killed my new hand-held mixer three times before it was approved a couple weeks ago.

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Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

The first wave of CRM systems got a boost with success stories in an HBR Article (" Automation to Boost Sales and Marketing ") in 1989 by Moriarty and Swartz. Sales leaders can gain insight into how many salespeople are needed, how to attract and retain top talent, and whether an incentive plan is motivating the right kinds of sales activity.

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CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

With this newfound focus, the CEO harnessed the team’s knowledge and motivation to grow the company. His stress mounted as he micromanaged their work and got “stuck in the weeds” of low-level tasks. He felt overwhelmed by the pressures of the two roles and the need to delegate tasks to associate attorneys.

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Stress Chief Operating Officer CEO Micromanagement 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results. His company’s product is now marketed as Microsoft Workplace Analytics and provides one way to estimate how employee time is spent. It pays to give people back control of their days.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

To this point, I still remember a discussion I had years ago with a sports marketing executive who reported to me. But when backed by a solid commitment to quality and excellence, and supported by motivated employees who appreciate less stress in their working lives, that’s a highly productive combination.

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Stress Meyer Micromanagement Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

And don’t micromanage. “Don’t assume you know what motivates them.” Ask, ‘What motivates you and how can I help?’” ” Case Study # 2: Find out what motivates your star, and empower her to advance. It wasn’t until he finally asked her “What motivates you?”

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Management How To Project Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

While these senior executives, 20-something bankers, and mid-career marketers, analysts, and lawyers all knew that they wanted to leave their current roles, executing their plan proved to be a perennially insurmountable challenge. In fact, the most common question I got was, "How can I overcome the hurdles to quitting and actually quit ?".

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Long-term How To Micromanagement Career 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

How do you best motivate someone who you don’t have formal authority over? ” Don’t micromanage. “To be a successful freelancer, you need to be self-motivated and able to work without someone looking over your shoulder,” says King. . When people work for you, you want to do right by them.

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Management Tips Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Although these tenets are similarly used within military units to enforce chain of command, sales leaders prefer to use motivation and the force of their personal character before employing the power associated to their title. In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below.

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Organization Belief Systems Micromanagement Guidelines 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Exclusivity vs. Inclusivity : Do you use your intelligence to intimidate and stifle others or to encourage, inspire and motivate others? If any of these issues describe situations that hit too close to home then you may want to take a step back and do some self-evaluation.

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