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. That way, the operation can be fully justifiable, one that runs the same way year in and out.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. They are very good at coming up with innovative solutions to problems. They tend to work very closely with what I call operators, that’s the second natural style.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves. But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Even when startups have great products and customer interest, they struggle with long-term growth.

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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. Edward Howard Armstrong — scientist, entrepreneur, and military officer — could not. “Interference” need not require micromanagement of devices, networks, or applications.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

I was a young entrepreneur. The business books would advise me to micromanage less, delegate more. Important information to have before you judge yourself or anyone else as being too much of a micromanager. It was only years later that I could fully appreciate the underlying dynamics that were really running my company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Many LPs are also still learning how best to be effective investors by providing support and demanding accountability, without micromanaging. The challenge is that senior experienced operational talent in Mexico usually isn't interested in bearing the risk and hardship of working in the still-struggling VC industry.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his These fads ironically lead to micromanaging and, often, to disaster.

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