Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Part of the draw of self-managing organizations, like those we explore in our recent HBR article , is their promise to free us from the disease of micromanagement. Before we get to what works, let’s consider what micromanaging really is and what puts you at risk of doing it. How do you avoid falling into micromanagement?

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Without trust, you get nowhere.&# – Jack Trout “Everything in marketing points to the reality that the profitable companies are those that have earned the confidence of their public. — The Product Management Perspective: Trust is vital for product managers. Followers trust it’s the right direction.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Not only is this micromanaging behavior annoying, it can stunt your professional growth. By assuaging a micromanager's stress, you may be able to secure the autonomy you need to get your work done and advance your career. Micromanagers abound in today's organizations but typically, it has nothing to do with performance.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 24, 2016

Indeed, thanks to the transition from managing task workers to leading knowledge workers, being able to tap into the collective insights, experiences, and talents of those you lead has become a critical factor to determining an organization’s capacity to adapt and respond to the changing needs of today’s global market.

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Decide to lead by example. The reality is you are already leading by example. The question is – is your example what you really want them to be emulating? It is hard to share those ideas if you don’t see the examples. I would add to the Decide to engage point that you should not micromanage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

A healthcare industry sales executive recently told us that as part of a continued effort to cut costs, her company had reduced the number of first-line sales managers from 66 down to 30 over a period of several years. sales forces is 10-12 salespeople per manager, but there is wide variation around this average. People management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend. tyler garrison/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

But the rules and expectations are different when you’re managing a freelancer who isn’t fully employed by your company. Many managers assume that they don’t need to tend to freelancers as much as they do regular employees—and there’s some truth to that, says Dan Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and Drive.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

In part, because as a parent, I'm always a little surprised when children do their homework without parental micro-management, but also because these two 8th graders made collaboration look like child's play. A perfect example of this is Twitter. And yet that's not always our experience in the office. If so, we need to just stop.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Also, there is a difference between managing scale and getting to scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

You might feel micromanaged or that company leaders don’t know or care about your learning and growth. I see and hear examples of career malaise all the time — in my work teaching and training people in companies, in discussions following my corporate talks, and in conversations with my family and friends.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

The history of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems holds valuable lessons. The first wave of CRM systems got a boost with success stories in an HBR Article (" Automation to Boost Sales and Marketing ") in 1989 by Moriarty and Swartz. It depends on how you go about it. Doing it is not enough. You have to do it right.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

The worst thing a leader can do is to micromanage the talented people they have hired. Every business, market and industry comes with its own set of problems and challenges. Express what needs to be done with clarity and coherence. Allow people to do their job and excel at it. 3. Focus on goals and getting results.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

His stress mounted as he micromanaged their work and got “stuck in the weeds” of low-level tasks. As he did so, his stress evaporated and he led the executive team to take a bold step toward expanding the business into a complex but potentially lucrative overseas market. Leadership Managing yourself Stress'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Families, after all, are our first “enterprise,” and our parents and siblings are our first “management team.” It influences whether they have close or distant relationships with the people who report to them, communicate directly or indirectly, micromanage or empower, encourage debates or shut them down.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

I believe that Steve Jobs was among the best CEOs of this generation because he created entirely new categories six times in a decade, and built the largest company market cap ever. Yet two recent and excellent books ( Inside Apple , by Adam Lashinsky and Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson) describe a management style that was disturbingly harsh.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The idea isn’t new — it’s well established in online advertising, for example — but its application is becoming more widespread in the private and public sectors. Consider these examples: Education. There are management tools and incentives in place to encourage a focus on results and the end goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

In today’s complex and collaborative workplace, the real challenge is to manage not just your personal workload but the collective one, says Jordan Cohen , a productivity expert and the Senior Director of Organizational Effectiveness, Learning & Development at Weight Watchers. Set the example. Encourage open communication.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

It is questionable, for example, whether many thousands of pages of regulations have enhanced the banks’ ability to carry out their core mission of funding the real economy of goods and services for real human beings. Managing the transition. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Instead, Alibaba is what you get if you take every function associated with retail and coordinate them online into a sprawling, data-driven network of sellers, marketers, service providers, logistics companies, and manufacturers. This cannot be managed in the traditional way. Think enabling not managing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

As I approach the 10-year anniversary of HubSpot, the marketing and sales software firm of which I’m CEO, I’ve been reflecting back on the decisions I’ve made — both right and wrong. Here’s an example. Target personas go beyond the demographics and psychographics normally associated with target markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Companies that delay a product launch until every detail is perfected do not necessarily have better-received products; they can miss market timing and the chance to get user feedback to make rapid adjustments. Flaws are built into Amish quilts, for example, out of the belief that only God can make things perfect.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

You fantasize about walking into your manager's office, tabling your resignation letter, and cleaning your forsaken cubicle for the final time. If you're looking to quit your job just so you can avoid that micromanaging boss or break free of a tedious daily task, you may be shooting too low. I'm outta here for good.".

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

Daily headlines are crowded with examples of hypocrisy, selective obedience, victimhood, projected blame, and a general lack of self-awareness. For example, if you believe you’re going to be successful, you’re going to view your prospects differently than if you think, “People like me never stand a chance.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. Consider one example from U.S. Rather than step in to micromanage, they clarified and reinforced the doctrine.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

There's a reason why great chefs visit the farms and markets that source their restaurants: The raw ingredients are critical to success. At one global telecommunications giant, for example, a critical network software upgrade was not only slipping further behind schedule, but the bug density was slowly creeping up, as well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. “It’s important to enjoy spending time with your colleagues and your manager,” says Dillon. “You might try to convince your manager to let you work remotely for a month,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. For example, a sales organization may be comprised of three areas that include North America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe/Middle East/Africa. Competitive but Cohesive Team. In one sense, a sales organization is an amalgamation of cliques.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

To compete in global markets, you need global talent. In this increasingly connected world, you can’t limit your recruitment to local markets. Once recruited, how do you effectively manage an international team? Instead, you have to accept, understand, and adopt cultural differences in your management approach.

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