Skip Prichard
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. It’s a common misconception that “command-and-control” is synonymous with micromanagement.
Roundtable Talk
JULY 14, 2010
Steinbrenner was a larger than life leader, who’s micro managing tactics repeatedly came under fire. Perhaps that’s why people can talk about a man who broke basically every rule in the management playbook (screaming, micromanaging, creating ridiculous rules) with such love and respect. "Cool" is a moving target.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
Every leader knows that they shouldn’t micromanage — even if some of us still do. But while we understand the downsides of micromanaging and taken action to avoid it, we still haven’t sufficiently embraced the upsides of not micromanaging. Exist at the macro and micro-levels simultaneously.
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 6, 2020
Even Moses had a reputation as a micromanager who couldn’t give up control or delegate; his father-in-law Jethro telling him “This thing you are doing is not good – you will surely wear away you and those who are with you”. As God lives, for every letter that comes to me, it is read.”
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. Both were perfectionists and micromanagers. They did not stop at strategy but got into tactics at a very micro level.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 7, 2013
You can’t micromanage your way to growth,” says Dr. Mary Jo Gorman, founder and CEO of Advanced ICU Care, which provides high-quality critical care to patients in intensive care units. A member of the 2011 North American class of Entrepreneurial Winning Women, Gorman says, “This is more than delegating.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 17, 2015
Not with a sweeping gesture or an edict from a CEO. Popular tactics like removing conference room chairs, plastering the walls with meeting rules, or banishing PowerPoint presentations don’t work, either. The sheer amount of time invested in these low-value interactions is a high-cost impediment to getting things done.
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