Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2014

One of the things I’ve learned is that there are some things I have to micromanage. It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. I have written extensively about the need for delegation in leadership. In church revitalization I’ve micromanaged a few things a bit closer than I normally would.

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Micromanagement Long-term Finance Bureaucracy 70

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2016

Sometimes we have to manage closely At least once a week a pastor contacts me about church revitalization. One of the things I’ve learned is there are some things I have to micromanage – some things of which I need to retain control. It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader.

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Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 56

Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Informational roles, involving gathering information to uncover problems and opportunities, delegating tasks, and reporting to a boss or board of directors.

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Quality Leadership McKinsey Training 166

Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Instead, employees self-manage and belong to different decision-making circles that keep the company operating.” is delegating authority for planning and decisions. But if we simply eliminate hierarchy altogether, we find that “flat-management” alternatives … well, they fall flat. One crucial principle of Influence 3.0

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Lack of delegation. They’re everywhere, it seems, and their micromanagement cuts off all the oxygen to productivity. Delegating is an art, and the best leaders are those who give their teams the freedom to innovate and the structure to work together at peak performance. Learn to find the best in people.

How To 161

How To Delegation Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 161

CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

In an attempt to expedite progress, you may be tempted to take complete control, micromanaging every aspect and excluding your team from important decisions. Risk-Taking: Taking calculated risks is essential for growth and innovation, but going to extremes can lead to detrimental outcomes.

Leadership Development 78

Leadership Development Executive Coaching Development Leadership 78

CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

In an attempt to expedite progress, you may be tempted to take complete control, micromanaging every aspect and excluding your team from important decisions. Risk-Taking: Taking calculated risks is essential for growth and innovation, but going to extremes can lead to detrimental outcomes.

Leadership Development 60

Leadership Development Executive Coaching Development Leadership 60

HR Digest

OCTOBER 19, 2020

High performing people are always: Filled with innovative ideas and open to challenges. The characteristics mentioned above also help them find innovative and quirky solutions to challenging office problems. . It also means training managers and supervisors on the best practices for managing a high-performing workforce. .

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Company How To Sharpe Construction 59

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

If you micromanage, you’ll have employees that wait for instructions every step of the way and will not use their own resources. However, if you don’t give enough direction, and you’ll be wasting time and resources having to delegate and do work over. This is a fine line to walk as a leader.

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Brigette Hyacinth

AUGUST 25, 2019

The fact is a manager may not be always right. It is also important to delegate decision making with comments such as, ” Let me know what you think, I trust your judgement.” Such bosses don’t give employees opportunities to grow and develop and they resort to micromanaging. The rule no.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In a grand example of the breakdown between management and workers, Hostess Brands recently declared bankruptcy after failed negotiations with its striking workers. The incident incited a host of postmortem commentaries placing blame on poor management or unreasonable unions. Here are nine traits that innovative leaders share.

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Leadership Micromanagement Delegation Loyalty 100

Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Avoid conflict – Successful leaders know how to effectively manage conflict in their teams. Conflict in and of itself is not a bad thing, but our culture tends to have a negative view of conflict and neglect the benefits of creativity, better decision-making, and innovation that it can bring. Knock it off!

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

If they feel too micromanaged, or that they don’t have enough autonomy then it can have a negative effect on efficiency and effectiveness. You can choose to delegate, mentor, coach, shadow or even give people projects to run with. There are innovative ways you can build a culture of celebration.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2013

Diversity is the key to an innovative team. Managing Smart. People don’t need micromanagement. Manage meetings well. A lot of team leadership is knowing who can do what and delegating accordingly. It is not about conflicts but how you manage them. Manage the grapevine. Embrace diversity.

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Team How To Mentor Bottom-up 191

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

The answer to excessive micromanaging , we’re often told, is to learn to trust our reports, empowering them to make decisions for themselves. In practice, many bosses fail to delegate because they haven’t cultivated a set of underlying mindsets and practices. Yet that sounds far easier than it actually is.

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Delegation Real Estate Micromanagement Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

. “First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. For almost 100 years, management has been associated with the five basic functions outlined by management theorist Henri Fayol: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

5- Lead, Don’t Micromanage A key problem many leaders fall into is when they micromanage everything. This inability to delegate not only deprives the work being done from the contributions of the entire team, which are always better than those of one person, but it also de-motivate the talented people working around the leader.

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Leadership Micromanagement Policies Covey 204

The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results. Fuzzy Focus Too many change and organization improvement efforts are disconnected from the vital strategic issues keeping senior managers awake at night.

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Teamwork Restructuring Project Micromanagement 104

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Too often people want to move to management when they are better solo performers, or they prefer to work individually, but the job requires collaboration. Don’t micromanage. People perform better when they and their jobs are in synch. Give feedback. Give each person whole projects instead of pieces or parts of a project.

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Competitive Advantage Micromanagement Motivation Execution 80

Lead from Within

AUGUST 25, 2015

Prepare yourself with a summary of the mission, purpose and values of the company, along with the trends and innovations within your industry. Manage Up, Down And Across. Managing across and down are important, but if you don’t manage up you’re toast. “Up” Learn To Delegate. Create A One-Pager.

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Power Succession Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

In my work, coaching leaders at every level through a variety of management dilemmas, I’ve developed three strategies to practice reflective urgency: Diagnose your urgency trap. For example, Jenna was a new manager struggling to adjust to the dueling pressures of delivering her own work, while keeping the team accountable for theirs.

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How To Delegation Argyris Micromanagement 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Once clear, consistent outcomes are set, management conversations shift from exercises in delegation to problem-solving sessions. Less micromanagement leads to more choice, decision making, freedom, and accountability at the individual level. Help employees choose, and be responsible for, their own adventure.

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Team Organization Management Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

In our work as business school professors and consultants, we’ve met countless managers who fail to achieve their goals. Managers typically waste massive amounts of money, time, energy, and resources in order to fix these issues. Managers are trying to solve their intractable people problems in any way they can.

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Price Micromanagement Delegation Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Though they may sound like an exercise in micromanagement, they are actually the opposite. Leaders of these companies work relentlessly to focus the enterprise on their strategy’s biggest potential challenges, but they delegate solving these issues to small, cross-functional teams of specialists drawn from across the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

The business books would advise me to micromanage less, delegate more. Important information to have before you judge yourself or anyone else as being too much of a micromanager. We look at everything through the lens of management practice. I was taken aback. I proceeded to analyze my behavior.

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Micromanagement Open-book Entrepreneur Delegation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

New networks and innovative analytics gave top management greater visibility into Procter's people, processes, and anticipated profits. At virtually all the larger companies I knew, increased transparency and visibility empowered hard-charging executives to increasingly meddle and micromanage. No boilerplate.

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