Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

Resistance to disruptive, technology-driven change is not unusual. The marketing team could upload a few different key banners or messages to the most prominent location on the website and, after gathering some experience, the system would decide which message produced the highest visitor engagement.

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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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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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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. That means 55% of them remain at the helm while their company scales.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As directors and management teams adapt, they’re bumping into limits—both on the amount of time directors can be asked to spend before the role is no longer attractive and on the scope of the activities they can undertake before creating organizational noise or concerns among top executives about micromanagement.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In this regard, the best organizations have strong leaders who exercise authoritarian control, dictate team direction, and establish the codes of behavior that all team members must abide by. In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In one large tech company, their product team focused significant upfront time writing small requirements (called “user stories”). ” For example, in one fast growing tech company, the Agile teams did not try to understand the broader strategy of the organization. Similarly, documentation often trumps working software.

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