Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

OR “The engineers are always so smug and condescending with the sales team, don’t they understand the pressure we are under!?” These complaints construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards others. I cannot stand to work with that person.”

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Cooper Resistance Micromanagement Construction 125

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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Micromanagement Team How To Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. But that set off the field engineers’ alarm bells.

CEO 8

CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The Penguins were delighted with the idea that Perry would bring a refreshing new perspective to their operation and Perry, being an ambitious sort, was equally delighted to be chosen. Our brains are difference engines, trained to find and deal with patterns and their disruption. But then, the tide changed.

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Gordon Open-book Library Diversity 46

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. Instead, there is independent and autonomous local decision making that operates within the guidelines and protocols established by the leaders above. They know, like and respect each other. DIY Attitude. for the own failings.

Organization 8

Organization Belief Systems Micromanagement Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. You don’t have to micromanage them, just provide clear, high-level direction. But there are some common pain points.

Tools 8

Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 8

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. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. By 2012 some 75% did.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

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. This unusual combination of squads, tribes, chapters, and guilds is the organizational infrastructure that underlies Spotify’s operating model.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Span of Control Objective 8

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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Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. That bill also made clear that Congress never intended the FCC to have the discretion to transform broadband into a public utility at will, and in doing so subject it to rate regulation and other micromanagement.

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Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8