Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend. Disruption of plans.

Resistance 8

Resistance How To Audience Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. They may try to rationalize their micromanagement by arguing that every aspect of their venture’s success hinges upon their own exacting review. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Does your CEO remind you of your bullying older brother? Watch out: Chances are your CEO is recreating the very same dynamics that shaped his early family life. The entire executive team, and its mission, may suffer unless the CEO recognizes it and takes conscious steps to change his subconscious behavior.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Micromanagement CEO Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Consider the example of Yi-Min, chief of staff for a CEO at a technology firm. Yi-Min’s colleagues thought he was a poor listener who micromanaged and didn’t respect others’ time. He aimed to listen better, reduce micromanagement, and value others’ time. Micromanage less.

Micromanagement 8

Micromanagement Delegation Goal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

I believe that Steve Jobs was among the best CEOs of this generation because he created entirely new categories six times in a decade, and built the largest company market cap ever. Yet two recent and excellent books ( Inside Apple , by Adam Lashinsky and Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson) describe a management style that was disturbingly harsh.

McGregor 14

McGregor Micromanagement Leadership Performance Review 14

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.” ” U se of digital technology. ” Health care.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Managing the transition. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As directors and management teams adapt, they’re bumping into limits—both on the amount of time directors can be asked to spend before the role is no longer attractive and on the scope of the activities they can undertake before creating organizational noise or concerns among top executives about micromanagement.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

I had been on the phone for over an hour, almost all of that time listening to Frank*, a senior manager at Jambo, a technology company, complain about his boss, Brandon. Jambo is a company I know well — I have many ongoing relationships there from when I used to work with their CEO — but they are not, currently, a client.

Energy 13

Energy Micromanagement Productivity Products 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

If Dimon had seen those positions — naked and unsummarized — back then, could his bank have saved itself and its CEO a lot of money and embarrassment? He wasn't technically sophisticated enough to read the code or analyze the testing, but he asked several project managers to share how their code was being documented.

Micromanagement 16

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 16

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? All one has to do is watch a very bright person defend their position to understand what I’m driving at with today’s post.

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Blog Engineering Brand Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

With not a little pride, Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald and Filippo Passerini, his CIO, told Fortune Brainstorm conference attendees that digital investment had successfully transformed their company's transparency and agility. Did he simply tell people not to micromanage? Did he simply tell people not to micromanage?

Micromanagement 14

Micromanagement Management Agility CIO 14