The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results. Even less time is devoted to reviewing, assessing, and reflecting on successes, problems, and lessons learned. The Top Five Failure Factors 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend. tyler garrison/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

With the combination of cloud storage and computing, mobile technologies, and powerful analytical and predictive tools, we can start mining 'big data' and reaping huge rewards.". We commonly see new technologies overhyped; their capabilities are promoted beyond their potential. It's not that simple, especially for sales forces.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. The technology and business model Ming Zeng, the chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, describes in Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals About the Future of Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. This entrepreneurial success story has not happened overnight. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

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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. To understand Jobs's success, I find it helpful to look at the success of Bobby Knight , the fabled basketball coach at Indiana. Both were winners.

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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. Set your company up for success. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

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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. Sarah, a highly driven CEO of a technology company, was a heavy-handed micro-manager. His company successfully weathered the downturn.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

To understand why the FCC’s involvement would create more problems than it would solve, it helps to understand a massive shift in web security over the last few years: the overwhelmingly successful campaign to encrypt data flowing to and from consumers over the Internet.

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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. Is this micromanagement? There's both a cultural and personal difference between this kind of micromanagement and being a control freak.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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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. A competitor's new technology may leapfrog yours.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Many LPs are also still learning how best to be effective investors by providing support and demanding accountability, without micromanaging. However, it has also been investing directly in companies — making the government a competitor of VC funds and disrupting the sector's market dynamics. Investment side.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

In today’s post I’ll share the keys to leveraging your intellectual assets as opposed to having your intelligence serve as a barrier to your success… While leadership intelligence doesn’t have to be an oxymoron, it certainly can be. Is your intellect standing in the way of your success?

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