Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves.

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Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

But in a free market — fettered by a reliable rule of law but little political micromanaging — would you expect "NINJA" loans to exist? Something clearly had scrambled the normal market incentives in the mortgage bazaar. Surely not. The numbers alone suggest Washington''s visible hand.

Incentives 9

Incentives Crisis Policies Micromanagement 9

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. Jobs would make decisive decisions on large and small issues and again and again would be proved right by the market or technology.

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McGregor Micromanagement Leadership Performance Review 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Maybe you can identify with a marketing professional, an MBA we'll call Sophie, who worked as a product manager in a consumer products company. The history of many present managers is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations: For too long, we have had our ideas ignored and our projects micromanaged. So, what about you?

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Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

The worst thing a leader can do is to micromanage the talented people they have hired. Commit everything you do to excellence. Every business, market and industry comes with its own set of problems and challenges. Allow people to do their job and excel at it. 3. Focus on goals and getting results. 7. Are solution oriented.

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Leadership Motivation Micromanagement Active Listening 167

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

recently announced that its members are committing to transform 75% of their contracts into pay-for-performance models by 2020. And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

It influences whether they have close or distant relationships with the people who report to them, communicate directly or indirectly, micromanage or empower, encourage debates or shut them down. This, in turn, can derail even the most committed parent and undermine a child’s future ability to deal with stress.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

It takes hard work, commitment, and unyielding determination — don’t let people convince you otherwise. That said, if you’re not willing to make the commitment, don’t complain about the outcome. Do you delegate responsibility and then micromanage because you can’t let go? They view it as a PR or marketing exercise.

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Morale Advice Open-book Information 138

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

While these senior executives, 20-something bankers, and mid-career marketers, analysts, and lawyers all knew that they wanted to leave their current roles, executing their plan proved to be a perennially insurmountable challenge. Commit beforehand to quit on a particular date, not after a reward. How do you avoid this endless cycle?

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Long-term How To Micromanagement Career 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Building alignment and commitment to the firm’s strategy (in particular, by emphasizing empathy as much as urgency). What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy.

CEO 8

CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

This will help you decide what people should be working on and what they shouldn’t and accomplish more by committing to less. But don’t micromanage, Cohen warns. Don’t: Micromanage. Outline key goals and analyze your team’s capacity to execute on them. It’s your job “to set boundaries.”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products How To Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

To this point, I still remember a discussion I had years ago with a sports marketing executive who reported to me. But when backed by a solid commitment to quality and excellence, and supported by motivated employees who appreciate less stress in their working lives, that’s a highly productive combination.

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Stress Meyer Micromanagement Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. They get better at devoting attention and providing support — without micromanaging. Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Make it a stretch.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

” Don’t micromanage. Be flexible with their schedules and other commitments. “Pay them market rate,” says Pink, “and if you value their work pay them more.” Assume yours is the only project they’re working on—freelancers often have multiple commitments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

And don’t micromanage. Jay Schaufeld, senior vice president of human resources at ownerIQ, the Boston-based digital marketing company, says that managing star performers is a “great luxury” but comes with “some added challenges” too. “Give her discretion in how she does the work.”

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Management How To Project Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

To be clear, I agree with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who recently acknowledged that net neutrality principles have been and will continue to be strictly enforced not by regulation but by powerful market forces. Here, the effort to transform Internet Service Providers (ISPs) into utilities is a cure far worse than the problem. Not exactly.

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