Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

The CEO and second generation owner of this family business was completely frustrated, very unhappy, and hated coming into work every day. Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results. ” This team was quite bewildered.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Only 37% of the population believes CEOs are credible and only half of full-time workers place a great deal of trust in their employers. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. Completely distributed teams working from home mean that you couldn’t micromanage even if you wanted to.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage. Repetitive to innovative: Managers often encourage predictability — they want things nailed down, systems in place, and existing performance measures high. Idris Mootee, CEO of Idea Couture Inc., The best time to innovate is all the time.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

They may try to rationalize their micromanagement by arguing that every aspect of their venture’s success hinges upon their own exacting review. Historically, venture capitalists have bypassed founders’ limitations and desire for control by swapping in new CEOs who have more professional experience. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” There is enough time to develop innovative solutions to achieve the results.

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