Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The worst place an employee can be, is stuck in an organization with a micro-manager who doesn’t care about their development and there are no opportunities for growth and advancement. It was about quickly moving along to the next goal. There was no real leadership (vision and inspiration) only management (command and control).

Micromanagement 140

Micromanagement Stress Incentives Morale 140

The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

When changes falter or organizations fail, it can usually be traced to dysfunctional management. Team Decisions and Collective Actions Functional silos and vertical accountability often create disparate groups of hard-driving leaders who meet to share information and provide individual input to budgets and operational plans.

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Development Team Short-term Teamwork 98

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners.

Resistance 141

Resistance Franchising Power Management 141

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As one of two co-ordinators of her high school’s orientation camp, she was not only responsible for managing the various activities to help new students become more familiar with the school, but she was also in charge of overseeing the 24 camp mentors who were there to support the new students.

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Succession Mentor Leadership Micromanagement 278

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When you’re caught up in the day-to-day routines and practices of a workplace, it can be hard to identify the specifics of different roles within a company and how they are intended to operate. Being a boss is about managing employees – many people aren’t equipped to do that. Leaders do more than just delegate tasks.

Long-term 52

Long-term Short-term Delegation Goal 52

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.

Motivation 279

Motivation Proposal Stress Goal 279

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Successful brands have high-performing teams working cohesively together to achieve their company’s goal. Avoid micromanaging. Micromanaging suffocates your team’s performance. This managing style will scare your team to make mistakes. This will ensure the success of your team instead of letting them operate in the dark.

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Team Building Entrepreneur Team Tips 72

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 17, 2016

Without the ability to successfully manage a business across borders, you and your organization are destined to fall behind. That’s because they fail to cultivate a global mindset which means truly having the desire, knowledge, and skills to operate effectively in business today. Have an open mind. Be self-aware.

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Globalization Succession Self-aware Micromanagement 150

Strategy Driven

MAY 18, 2020

Fortunately, some simple planning can quickly boost business performance and help you achieve your goals and objectives. You will also be able to gain a realistic idea of how close you are to achieving your intended business goals. Support your team but avoid micromanagement. Evaluate your business performance.

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Tips Outsourcing Micromanagement Efficiency 65

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

A big excuse managers have for not having a conversation is “I already know what they’re going to say.” When we’re at capacity, we use the one or two tools in our toolbox to manage conflict: shaming, intimidating, or some other tactic. Once I noticed these patterns, my goal was to understand the root cause of conflict mismanagement.

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Workshop Micromanagement Skills Open-book 132

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I’ve learned through experience that micromanaging doesn’t work. Clear business goals are almost always the key to success in both the short and long-term. This is true in both personal and organizational goals as a whole. Build that trust, and keep the end goal in mind as you go, and everyone is more likely to get behind you.

Succession 70

Succession Covey Leadership Long-term 70

ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 7, 2018

Your culture may be the culprit if your organization is not meeting goals and growing. 4 – Build accountability into your performance management. Have managers address accountability during regular performance reviews and work with employees to continually improve accountability measures. Here are six steps.

Core Competence 52

Core Competence Bottom-up Micromanagement Absenteeism 52

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. For example, they many fail to detect or assess profound changes in operating landscapes, like Bear Stearns or Blockbuster did.

Agility 89

Agility How To Decentralization Morale 89

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Over the past few decades I've worked with hundreds of managers, and many complain that they work for micromanagers. I was thinking about this incongruity while working with a group of senior managers from a manufacturing division who were trying to streamline their operational reporting processes.

Micromanagement 16

Micromanagement Operations Report Learning-by-Doing 16

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2019

The five steps below will give you more insight into what you can be doing on a regular basis to improve your office environment and run a smoother operation overall. Set goals and track your progress so you can see what changes are working well and what you should be doing more of going forward. Monitor Your Employee’s Actions.

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Delegation Finance Micromanagement Mentor 50

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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Micromanagement Constraint Delegation Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

You've gotten feedback from your manager as well as word of rumblings within your team: You're seen as a micromanager who tends to get into the weeds — and stay there. You produce great results but senior management sees you as an operational manager and questions your ability to let go and operate at a strategic level.

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Delegation Micromanagement Learning Curve Metrics 17

Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2020

Situations will arise when decisions need to be made by your employees for which there is no operating procedure or precedent. Don’t micromanage. Ensure your expectations are understood, negotiate goals, provide the needed resources and cut your people loose to do their thing. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

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Silverman How To Covey Ethics 53

QAspire

JULY 22, 2013

Where there are human beings, there will be dynamics of how they operate. Managing Smart. People don’t need micromanagement. Manage meetings well. It is not about conflicts but how you manage them. Manage the grapevine. When you encounter an ego situation , quiz your goals. Treat them as humans.

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Team How To Mentor Bottom-up 191

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2019

There is no place for micromanagement. Projects move forward, employees learn new skills and learn to trust each other, and the business achieves goals and delivers to clients. In a business where collaboration is poor and teams operate in silos, it is impossible to build trust. Honesty, openness and trust.

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Agility Morale Belief Systems Micromanagement 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

One of the more vexing problems most managers face every day is how to get involved in the work of their people without doing the work themselves or micromanaging those doing it. How can you use this to make progress on our goals and plans? Here we focus on using Prep-Do-Review with your people. What are you going to do?

Micromanagement 15

Micromanagement How To Delegation Review 15

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. But it applies to any group of 3 or more people, trying to achieve common goals. They tend to work very closely with what I call operators, that’s the second natural style.

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Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Completely distributed teams working from home mean that you couldn’t micromanage even if you wanted to. If you’re operating as a know-it-all, you have an underlying belief that that any new stuff really isn’t of much value. When you communicate, what’s your goal? Today, leaders need to become skilled facilitators.

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Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 108

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers. Most organizations standardize work for managers by testing it on a small scale in one pilot unit. Alignment around goals. Management “hygiene.”

Health Care 9

Health Care System Metrics Operations 9

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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Management Tips Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

When entrepreneurs first start their businesses, they are usually involved in everything: running operations, keeping the books, and making sales calls. By building a team to handle operational responsibilities, entrepreneurs can find more time to focus on strategic priorities and even bigger goals.

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Entrepreneur Delegation Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). Prior to this pilot, the operating model of the stores was focused on creating emotional and economic pressure to drive performance. Systematically manage apprenticeship.

Motivation 11

Motivation How To Learning-by-Doing Retail 11

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. Disruption of plans.

Resistance 8

Resistance How To Audience Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

The history of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems holds valuable lessons. Billions of dollars and millions of hours were spent to build and operate these systems. 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.

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CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 13

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. But don’t micromanage, Cohen warns.

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Productivity Products How To Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

Constraint 8

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I typed the words into the pristine white search field, hoping they didn’t land me on the NSA’s no-fly list: “How to manage a terrorist organization.”. There’s not a lot on the basic management issues faced by your run-of-the-mill al Qaeda cell. HBR: Why look at terrorist groups through a management lens?

Constraint 8

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Julie Long, a senior developer at a software company, was identified by her manager as a high performer. When she was asked to coordinate a team of three junior developers on a project, Julie was excited about the opportunity to finally move into a management role. Managing Yourself Book. However she quickly became frustrated.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement Report Team 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

From the day he opened his first TV and appliance retail store in Richmond, Virginia, Sam understood that management means getting results through the efforts of other people. Sam loved McGregor's argument that there are two theories of personnel management. This was the popular perspective espoused by Fredrick W.

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McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Abraham Maslow taught us that we can’t concern ourselves with higher goals until we have the necessities of life, including security. Managers often decide that the real issue for employees is how much money they make. Most employees are not coin-operated, and more money does not lead to more engagement. Insight Center.

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360-Degree Feedback Maslow Mission Statement Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Whyte kept them on the defensive by peppering them with personal opinions and demanding lofty goals that could not be met. Whyte considered himself an expert on productivity management, but his condescending attitude and disproportionate use of airtime made the entire board unproductive. He never listened, executives complained.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Hedge Micromanagement Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. The Innovation Manager. The Transformational Leader.

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Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8