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4 Moves Smart Leaders Make to Get Better Team Results

Great Leadership By Dan

Stop Micromanaging your Exemplars – You know who the Exemplars on your team are. Whatever the case, smart leaders will dial back their micromanagement of their Exemplars to free up some of their own time to invest elsewhere. Victor Prince: As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U.S.

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3 dysfunctional behaviors leaders use to avoid discomfort

Skip Prichard

The point is, they’re every bit as uncomfortable with conflict as the person who avoids or appeases; they just have a different method of operation. Top leaders sometimes think they need to micromanage because their managers are in the weeds, but there’s a reason—the culture.

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business Review

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Why Startups Like Uber Stumble Over Problems They Could Have Avoided

Harvard Business Review

Individual founders can become a barrier to growth if they are unable to let go of the details and micromanage, or fail to build a cohesive team around them, or allow hubris to get in their way. Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility.

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The Tangled Web of Net Neutrality and Regulation

Harvard Business Review

.” Businesses and consumers are being warned that Republican lawmakers are united in their determination to not just modify the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order, but to “kill,” “destroy,” “dismantle,” or “abolish,” the open internet, as soon as possible. More on that later.)