Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2019

Investing in improving your efficiency and productivity will help you create more value to your customers and maintain your reputation. If you are trying to control or even micromanage every process in your organization, you are going to get overwhelmed very soon. There is a lot of talk about business sustainability these days.

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Long-term How To Reputation Delegation 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Micromanagement gets most of the attention, but under-management may be just as big a problem. And I well remember one of my own company’s Human Resource VP’s exclaiming in frustration, “The trouble with our managers is that too often they just don’t manage!” Chalermphon Kumchai/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. If you micromanage, you’ll have employees that wait for instructions every step of the way and will not use their own resources. This is a fine line to walk as a leader.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

They gather and develop the talent in their organization, and are able to delegate tasks, and not micromanage. Good leaders are experts on their company’s products and services. Great leaders have a clear picture of what they hope to accomplish, what they want their company to do, to be, to provide. Cool under fire. Risk Takers.

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Leadership Micromanagement Delegation Loyalty 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 21, 2021

No one should have to work in that kind of toxic environment, and if no one does anything to stop it, many people will simply disengage from their work—becoming less productive—or start looking for a new job. Micromanaging. ” -Peter Economy. Being aloof and not involved. Not fostering professional development.

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Management How To Due Diligence Learning-by-Doing 134

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

Whether you are in an office, factory or on a construction site, the principles presented will improve your retention and enable you to save your organization thousands of dollars due to lost productivity, poor quality and customer service issues. Assess your supervisory and management team! Find out what’s wrong and fix it! About the Author.

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Learning-by-Doing Open-book Training Micromanagement 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. Taylor, the 19th century guru of time and motion studies, which were used by management to micromanage workers; to tell them not only what to do but also how to do it.

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McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

With this ugly scenario, the corporate ecosystem is subject to permanent loss of great talents who are victims aside from incoherent productivity – the heaviest effect in a general perspective. Micromanage the worker and clinically scrutinizing the employee’s work to highlight incompetence and find reasons to abuse the worker.

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Document Definition Handbook Micromanagement 88

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Over my many years of helping organizations create high-performance workplaces, I’ve seen firsthand how untrustworthy managers damage morale and productivity. To demonstrate positive assumptions, show that you reject micromanaging. Finally, check those references! People who are fired for breeding distrust are serial job hunters.

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Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 13