Lead Change Blog

APRIL 20, 2015

Three Delegation Mistakes Most Managers Make. Here are a few examples: We need a new product prototype that meets these engineering specifications…. Don’t delegate the process – that’s micromanaging or training. Leadership Development Accountability delegation Management managers outcome results'

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 26, 2015

Scenario 1: You’ve been watching one of your regional managers closely for some time, and gosh, can he ever generate sales. Your rational brain whispers “But the sales……are up” Scenario 2: You have a brilliant engineer on your team that you’ve recently promoted into management.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

These are, of course, widely appreciated management methods for raising performance. Perhaps it’s because they feel counter-intuitive to many managers. Because micromanagement, the opposite of autonomy and the default behavior for many managers, puts people in a threatened state. But they’re rarely put into practice.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

Someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off on an angry tirade about “What a jerk they are – they always do this. Or, “The engineers are always so smug and condescending to us; don’t they understand the pressure we are under!?” It has happened to all of us.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog presents his post “ A Good Management System is Robust and Continually Improving ” and says, “ An organization succeeds because of the efforts of many great people. So how do you know if you’re slipping into the micro management trap?”

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

It has happened to all of us, someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off an angry tirade about “What an a **e they are and they always do this. OR “The engineers are always so smug and condescending with the sales team, don’t they understand the pressure we are under!?”

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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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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

According to one former employee, “Management made it clear that no employee was allowed to complain about the unethical practices that were going on within the branch.”. We’re in the business of helping clients measure and manage culture. Tim asked the engineer: “What are you looking for while you’re up there?”

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

There is no shortage of advice for how to navigate power dynamics within organizations — from managing toxic or exceptionally gifted subordinates to dealing with unpredictable and narcissistic bosses. When interacting with our superiors, we naturally adopt a more deferential low-power behavioral style. deference).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

When you’re hiring a new manager, the stakes are high. You need someone who can effectively lead people, manage a budget, liaise with upper management — and, usually, do it all from day one. Would you hire or promote a star player into a management role if they’ve never managed anyone?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Bad bosses come in all shapes and sizes: abrasive and insensitive, indecisive, inconsistent and unfair, the micromanager who stifles your ability to perform and grow, and "matador managers" adept at sidestepping every tough issue that comes their way. So, the question isn't whether or not you'll have a bad boss.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. “When I joined the organization, I was so intense that I’m sure I intimidated some of my managers,” he told us.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Victoria Brescoll , a social psychologist at Yale School of Management who studies gender stereotypes, was curious how people evaluate women who make mistakes in traditionally male occupations. Two new books illuminate the challenges still facing female CEOs. Research suggests they would be. The pattern persisted.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The good news is that many of these folks manage to extract themselves from what might have otherwise been mind-numbing existences and to fly to dizzying heights of success simply by insisting on being themselves. Our brains are difference engines, trained to find and deal with patterns and their disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

In terms of management, the advent of the entrepreneurial society means above all replacing the rigidities of industrial-age mind-sets, with their command-and-control, top-down orientation. Managing the transition. There are indications that this is happening. This enormous a transition is painful and frightening.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The program managers' key performance indicator dashboards showed nothing alarmingly unusual except the seemingly usual slippage and delays associated with a complex project with moving parts worldwide. The executive responsible for the deliverable (but not the software engineering itself) felt something amiss. Is this micromanagement?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Not long ago, I received a call from an HR manager at a large corporation seeking an executive coach for one of their senior leaders. Manage your assumptions and judgements. I’d heard from the company’s HR manager that this executive was especially cruel toward one colleague. Charles Orr/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

high empowering leadership) or 2) micromanaging the employee and never asking for advice or input (i.e., Instead, we found the opposite: that the more empowering leader actually “compensated” for the micromanaging leader, producing fairly high levels of overall empowerment and proactivity across the teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Engineers gave it rave reviews, and investors were lined up. He then maneuvered nerdy engineers to build his sexy devices. “Interference” need not require micromanagement of devices, networks, or applications. Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

To shift to a remote model successfully, however, management practices have to adapt to remote work, even if only a few workers are remote. You don’t have to micromanage them, just provide clear, high-level direction. How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. The Future of Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

At their best, companies realize that not everything is easily measurable, or should be measured, and that constant temperature taking and micromanagement are inefficient and demoralizing. In traditional hierarchical organizations, managers direct the work of subordinates and thereby ensure alignment with broader organizational goals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. It is highly likely that the key sales management leaders have worked with each other before at prior companies. The sales organization tends to blame the other areas of the organization (engineering, marketing, support, etc.)

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? All one has to do is watch a very bright person defend their position to understand what I’m driving at with today’s post.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. These requirements were put into a ticket queue as tasks for the next available engineer to start working on. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.

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