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Leadership Development Carnival: June 2014 Edition

QAspire

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. and presents her post “ The Insiders Guide to Micromanagement ”. ( @LetsGrowLeaders ).

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. We often discuss how very smart leaders with deep technical expertise frequently direct rather than develop others. Their team members call this micromanagement.

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How Inspiring Identity Fuels Team Performance

Michael Lee Stallard

General Groves, a 250- to 300-pound crusty veteran career officer, began to pull together the people and the resources to make it happen. Feynman asked Robert Oppenheimer, the technical leader of the scientists and engineers working on the project, to let him inform the technicians about the project’s purpose. You May Also Enjoy: .

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How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager

Harvard Business Review

Micromanaging in a way that doesn’t allow team members to expand their own capabilities. Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career. How have you developed your people skills? Taking back the tasks that they have delegated because they believe they can do them better. Rebecca Knight.

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Dealing with a Bad Boss

Harvard Business Review

The parallel in organizational life is that at some point in your career you'll have a bad boss — or at least a boss who's bad for you. Clearly, however, these tactics aren't foolproof — and in some cases you may need to try to engineer a move to a new position within your organization.

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Why Being a Middle Manager Is So Exhausting

Harvard Business Review

Researchers have devoted entire careers to systematically cataloging the many ways in which those who have power differ from those who lack power with respect to their motivations, behaviors, biases, etc. (a Don’t micromanage your middle managers. a sampling of these findings can be found here , here , here , and here ). .”

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In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs | You're Not the Boss.

You're Not the Boss of Me

Our brains are difference engines, trained to find and deal with patterns and their disruption. Those jobs I found myself micromanaged nearly all the time, but I feel more productive and creative now than ever before. It can be difficult to accept differences, but highly valuable in the long run.

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