The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 27, 2022

New relationship allows GP clients to integrate Situational Leadership ® course with existing comprehensive leadership development solutions. Providing direction is great, except when it’s perceived as micromanagement. Everything in leadership depends upon who you’re dealing with and what the task is. About GP Strategies.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

Invest in a suite of virtual team communication technologies, like collaborative software, video conferencing, and project management platforms. Empathy is the key–understand their unique challenges and be flexible, focusing on outputs rather than micromanaging their every move. Still wondering how to manage remote teams?

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

First, you stop doing things that undermine accountability—stop overseeing, legislating and micromanaging. A six-step framework to build company-wide accountability is to: Decide What’s Important (develop an authentic mission, vision, values, strategic position). That’s what company-wide accountability is all about.

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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. But little time is often invested in developing ongoing improvement plans, habits, or approaches. The Top Five Failure Factors 1. But most change programs slip and fall.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. Completely distributed teams working from home mean that you couldn’t micromanage even if you wanted to. Is it possible to develop empathy? The not so good news is that cognitive empathy needs to be developed. Leadership is about empathy.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This means spending more time exploring the implications of AI, helping others extend their own frontiers of knowledge, and learning through experimentation to develop new practices. Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage. Companies need to learn that their successes should not distract them from innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. The technology and business model Ming Zeng, the chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, describes in Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals About the Future of Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development uses “results-based” aid to improve the educational outcomes of young girls in Africa and Asia. 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

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. The result was that her team felt increasingly micromanaged and less engaged in their contributions. Haruto was the VP of sales for a technology company.

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How To Delegation Argyris Micromanagement 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Annoyed by this micromanagement, he immediately responds with his uncensored thoughts. These misinterpretations create an anxiety that can become costly, affecting morale, engagement, productivity, and innovation. The solution will not come from new technologies (although, no doubt, developers will keep trying to bridge that gap).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Each one apparently accompanied by a breathless press release describing how it represents genuine innovation, not to mention fabulous design. But this as the face of modern day innovation?". And yes, some of the products will probably even be a welcome addition to our gadget-laden homes. That's the first catch. The second?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

To combat this trap, managers must think about problems differently—engage in problem finding before problem solving— so they can see innovative solutions that can break through impasse. Organizational Development Book. Macromanagement is micromanagement’s lesser known, but extremely costly, opposite.

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Price Micromanagement Delegation Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. The FCC quickly developed a “public interest” rationale for the move: sunspots.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The emergence of a large entrepreneurial community is essential for the development and growth of any country. Many LPs are also still learning how best to be effective investors by providing support and demanding accountability, without micromanaging. In the U.S., In Latin America, on the other hand, the VC industry is still nascent.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Don’t let your intellect stand in your way, but rather use it as an asset to develop those around you to their full potential thereby increasing your chances for long-term success. The bottom line is this…the gift of intellect is an asset to be thankful for, and put to good and productive use. I Think Not.

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