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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

Managing a perfectionist can be challenging but it's not impossible. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and the author of Flying Without a Net. Accept that they may not be good managers as they are likely to demand too much of their people (see "hypercritical" and "bad at delegating" above).

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When It Comes to Digital Innovation, Less Action, More Thought

Harvard Business Review

So, like good innovators, we began working on a solution to our colleague’s problem by building an automatic liquor inventory-management system. The system would give owners real-time inventory information, which would help them to identify shrinkage early. In 2009, we decided to shut the business down. Insight Center.