Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2019

3) Avoid Distracting Communication: Some entrepreneurs will spend a lot of time micromanaging and refereeing personality conflicts in the workplace or engaging in their own workplace drama with partners, colleagues, and investors. Your time management is crucial to productivity and successful decision making.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Once you have established the management processes and settled into your daily tasks, running your business should be relatively straightforward. While there are often unexpected issues that need tackling, the longer that your business is running for, the easier it should be to manage.

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Short-term Goal Engineering Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

Micromanaging is a hard habit to break. If you’re the kind of boss who lasers in on details, prefers to be cc’ed on emails, and is rarely satisfied with your team’s work, then—there’s no kind way to say this— you’re a micromanager. How should you prioritize what matters?

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

At a priority-setting meeting of their Shareholder Council, Charles got fed up listening to all the talk about how to convince managers to do things the way that the owners wanted. Why are we cow-towing to the managers?” Does your board clearly represent the interests of owners rather than of management? It’s our legacy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

A healthcare industry sales executive recently told us that as part of a continued effort to cut costs, her company had reduced the number of first-line sales managers from 66 down to 30 over a period of several years. sales forces is 10-12 salespeople per manager, but there is wide variation around this average. People management.

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Span of Control Company Merchandising Management 8

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.

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Entrepreneur Delegation Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Managing your star performers should be no sweat, right? How do you manage someone who is knocking it out of the park? Whether your star performer has just joined your team or has been working for you for a while, here are some tips on how to manage her. And don’t micromanage. Think about development.

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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. And is it not something that can be delegated or outsourced.

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Micromanagement Constraint Middle Management Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

He felt overwhelmed by the pressures of the two roles and the need to delegate tasks to associate attorneys. His stress mounted as he micromanaged their work and got “stuck in the weeds” of low-level tasks. This decision immediately reduced her stress level and served her well with the CEO and management team.

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Stress Chief Operating Officer CEO Micromanagement 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

DIY might work well for hobbies, but for everything else, successful work-life integrators delegate like crazy, resources permitting. Companies that delay a product launch until every detail is perfected do not necessarily have better-received products; they can miss market timing and the chance to get user feedback to make rapid adjustments.

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Chief Operating Officer Belief Systems Micromanagement Outsourcing 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Families, after all, are our first “enterprise,” and our parents and siblings are our first “management team.” 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.

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Self-aware Micromanagement CEO Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

In today’s complex and collaborative workplace, the real challenge is to manage not just your personal workload but the collective one, says Jordan Cohen , a productivity expert and the Senior Director of Organizational Effectiveness, Learning & Development at Weight Watchers. But don’t micromanage, Cohen warns.

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Productivity Products How To Micromanagement 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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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

Do you delegate responsibility and then micromanage because you can’t let go? Your advice is that “personal branding is less a marketing exercise than it is becoming the best person you can be.” They view it as a PR or marketing exercise. Hold yourself up to a high standard , not an impossible one.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. But delegation can lead to invisibility, inconsistency and even chaos. How can you apply doctrine to your company?

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