Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Secrets of Highly Successful Young Entrepreneurs by Deborah Lynn Blumberg via @StanfordGSB. How to hold employees accountable without micromanaging them by Claire Lew @KnowYourTeamHQ. Innovation Is Everyone’s Business by Ben M. Hardy and Dan Sullivan. Students don't love it either. Lessons from Pops from @wallybock.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

These leaders say they prize creativity, innovation and change but demand that the same old things be done in the same old way they’ve always be done. This leadership dynamic is based in micromanagement, rooted in a fear of failure. A good leader will make a good team look great, and a great team will make a good leader look amazing.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2012

As entrepreneurs the thing is, we can see talent. So how do we balance that talent so we don’t lose our best chance at creating an innovative solution or approach? But once you deliver those directions, don’t micromanage them on how it has to get done. Losen the reigns. Let them work their magic and watch them fly.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Innovation is a challenge because it is largely a right brain activity. But once this is understood, innovation can become a personal leadership skill as well as a corporate one. Dana Theus talks playtime, the boredom that precedes the brilliance, and the risk of looking foolish in Why Is Leading Innovation So Hard?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage. Repetitive to innovative: Managers often encourage predictability — they want things nailed down, systems in place, and existing performance measures high. Companies need to learn that their successes should not distract them from innovation.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

I love what you were saying earlier about how this one, the Predictable Success and the The Synergist I felt like especially Predictable Success was targeted at senior leaders or entrepreneurs. They are very good at coming up with innovative solutions to problems. They’re left alone, they don’t like to be micromanaged.

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