Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

You’re all part of a complex human system, and what you and your teammates do affects the other parts of the system. That’s operational trust. There are people who want you to check in on them often, while others call that micromanagement. Jack Welch had a stellar career as one of the great CEOs of all time.

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Ryan Welch Bottom-up Micromanagement 316

QAspire

APRIL 23, 2013

Quality you deliver has everything to do with how much you own your work , your actions and its respective impact on the other parts of the system you operate in. Improvement & Development Managing Career Quality Improvement Self Growth career Quality' It tells a story about you. I do this and I get this.

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Quality Micromanagement Career Stress 153

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Early in my business career, I worked as a team leader on a high-level project. I’ve learned through experience that micromanaging doesn’t work. Currently, in addition to other investment ventures, Glenn heads Humless as CEO, pioneering reliable power systems based on clean energy sources.

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Succession Covey Leadership Long-term 70

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. Their raft might be micromanaging what gets done and how it gets done. It will help you determine how to change your “broadcasts” in a more systemic way.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 100

LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. They tend to work very closely with what I call operators, that’s the second natural style. Operators are the symbolic opposite of visionaries.

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Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

where vacations are short, sabbaticals are rare, school schedules don't align with office hours, and working parents cobble together their own costly support systems. This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. This is especially true in the U.S., Not exactly your typical job.

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Chief Operating Officer Belief Systems Micromanagement Outsourcing 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Paul Klein, Senior Vice President of Information Systems and Chief Process Officer at Rich Products Corporation (the $3 billion food manufacturer), is always looking for the next source of customer value. Earlier in his career he worked at EDS (an IT services provider), where he learned how to run IT as a business.

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Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8