Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

One of the more vexing problems most managers face every day is how to get involved in the work of their people without doing the work themselves or micromanaging those doing it. You can resolve this challenge with the same approach that we described in our previous blog — the technique we call Prep-Do-Review.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 19, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Our research and analysis has revealed a complicated relationship between mindfulness and executive performance—one that is important for leaders to understand as they seek to develop in their careers. Positive performance reviews. He will tell you that mindfulness played a critical role in transforming his career.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

He looks at his leadership team as a kind of sales force, each member of which should be developing a pipeline of opportunities to add more value all the time. Innovation managers execute improvements and simultaneously engage and develop people. How do we develop these different kinds of change agents?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Managers may micromanage their people. Managers won’t have enough time to spend with key customers or to develop strategies for driving long-term business success. This includes hiring, coaching, supervising, and conducting performance reviews. And they may spend too much time doing low-value administrative work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Should you give them performance reviews so they know where they stand? “It could be money, the chance to develop new skills, or the opportunity to work with great people,” says Pink. ” Don’t micromanage. has hired freelancers—mostly software developers—for 15 years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Taylor, the 19th century guru of time and motion studies, which were used by management to micromanage workers; to tell them not only what to do but also how to do it. This small move away from employee "management" and toward employee development within the organization would be a key part of what he later called Theory Y.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

Those jobs I found myself micromanaged nearly all the time, but I feel more productive and creative now than ever before. It certainly does have timeless truths. I am really blessed to have a job with a high amount of autonomy, and it is a welcome change from jobs that I have had in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

But there is one important difference —managing managers also requires leadership coaching: you have to coach “managers to develop the culture and capabilities that their team members need,” says Linda Hill, professor at Harvard Business School and coauthor of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 6, 2010

Perform a Self-Assessment – Take a look at those “fine print&# tendencies that you filed away earlier in the year – are you pushing too hard? Did you micromanage anything you should have backed away from? Or did you overcompensate and not push hard enough?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

For example, after a critical performance review, we might simply acknowledge, “I feel blindsided and a little scared.” For example, if you’ve learned your team sees you as a micromanager, you might remember that you’re a supportive friend, devoted community member, or loving parent.

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