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. If you don’t produce results now, you will never get to your long term goals.

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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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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Learn marketing through online resources, or the language of your biggest customers via DuoLingo. Learn delegation: Your business will never be able to move forward if you try to micromanage everything yourself. Use your workforce , and your business will only grow stronger.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

This is important: in the absence of the rigor of the market place, dividend policy is a means of enforcing discipline on management through the constraint on resources that management can access for the business. Have you clarified which decisions you will delegate to the board and to management and which ones you will stay involved with?

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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. They’d slipped and face-planted into all five of the following failure factors I’ve noted over decades of research, writing, and consulting work.

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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 10

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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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. Apologize and express gratitude.

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Stress Chief Operating Officer CEO Micromanagement 12

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 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Managers may micromanage their people. The best way to figure out the right span of control is to first understand what sales managers do, what they should do, and how much time it takes to execute the responsibilities that can’t be delegated. Span of control decisions affect sales management efficiency and effectiveness.

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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

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. Sarah, the ambitious CEO who micromanaged her team, spoke with one of the few people she trusted, an old business school friend.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

But don’t micromanage, Cohen warns. The key to improving individual productivity is to eliminate or delegate unimportant tasks and replace them with value-added ones, says Cohen. Don’t: Micromanage. “Help him understand the quality of the work you’re expecting,” she says. Or is it the person?

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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

JUNE 30, 2017

“Demonstrate trust by delegating authority and responsibility” over certain projects and tasks. And don’t micromanage. Demonstrate trust by delegating responsibility over certain projects and letting your star decide how she does the work. “Give her discretion in how she does the work.”

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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.". But delegation can lead to invisibility, inconsistency and even chaos. Rather than step in to micromanage, they clarified and reinforced the doctrine. How can you apply doctrine to your company?

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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.

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