Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Sports metaphors are everywhere in the workplace, but there’s no denying that the leadership and teamwork skills found in the sports setting teach important lessons. Follow these tips to promote a successful workplace that motivates team members and ultimately drives up productivity and profits. Avoid micromanaging.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

There is much to be said about leadership, and there is no shortage of descriptive words one uses when talking about leaders – influential, dedicated, globally thinking, focused, etc. – Creativity and Leadership. It’s difficult to find the perfect balance between creativity and leadership. Micromanaging.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Dr. Anne Perschel from Germane Insights shares “ The Secret Ingredient of Great Leadership ”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 25, 2019

So much is unknown, and the new is everywhere--new technology, new economic models, new politics, new cultural norms, and new products and services. What does this have to do with leadership? The role has not changed since the concept of leadership was born. Nevertheless, leadership calls for forward movement. Everything.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great. How can you make the leadership leap with your team and go from just being a good leader (and that isn’t bad) to a great leader?

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Considering the changing and difficult job market , the numbers aren’t surprising. One thing is certain, leadership in the workplace has never been more important. President Abraham Lincoln is revered for his leadership during one of the toughest times in our country’s history. Great leaders trust the people under them.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

If you micromanage, you’ll have employees that wait for instructions every step of the way and will not use their own resources. In fact, a great way to increase productivity in a workplace is to cross-train employees across departments. The temperature is dropping quickly in the desert night.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five leadership lessons that you can learn from Dalio. This means that if you have people on your team that can perform a certain task better than you, it takes away the need to micromanage them. Secondly, employees are more productive when they are left to their jobs with little to no micro-management.

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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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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Jobs' presentations over the years, he came across not as the creator of a product so much as its very first fan--the first person to digest its possibilities. Before his hiatus from Apple, in 1985, his entrepreneurial meddling and micromanagement had gotten out of control. He became less enamored of tech for tech's sake.

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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

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday by Kevin Eikenberry on September 27, 2010 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning In the course of your day as a leader you are faced with many decisions. Decide to start.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

Micromanaging is a hard habit to break. If you’re the kind of boss who lasers in on details, prefers to be cc’ed on emails, and is rarely satisfied with your team’s work, then—there’s no kind way to say this— you’re a micromanager. How should you prioritize what matters?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

If your company had just announced a 27% increase in revenues in this market, you'd probably be quite happy. And you'd think the market would be, too. Like many other companies that have a core product line, Google is struggling to find its next market. Giddy even. But, for Google, analysts seem decidedly unhappy.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. Their unique products and growing revenues were papering over many huge cracks and barely holding them together. ” This team was quite bewildered.

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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. But don’t micromanage, Cohen warns.

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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. Jobs would make decisive decisions on large and small issues and again and again would be proved right by the market or technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Every leader knows that they shouldn’t micromanage — even if some of us still do. But while we understand the downsides of micromanaging and taken action to avoid it, we still haven’t sufficiently embraced the upsides of not micromanaging. But I suspect an even more fundamental reason is at play here.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Develop strategic leadership skills. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Even when startups have great products and customer interest, they struggle with long-term growth. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When companies do find a way to recapture the insurgent energy of a start-up, it’s usually because leadership has emphasized two things. Though they may sound like an exercise in micromanagement, they are actually the opposite. ” Changing leadership behaviors like this is a major part of making micro-battles work.

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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. Linchao has created an on-demand business—but at mass production price points. By 3:45 p.m.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. They get better at devoting attention and providing support — without micromanaging. better goal would be something like “Sell $100,000 worth of the new product.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When it comes to talent assessment, it seems we tend to make decisions with blinders on, defaulting to an expected model of high-stress, high-intensity leadership. More relaxed behavior sometimes presumed to be unleaderlike can yield improved leadership results. You and Your Team.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

Do you delegate responsibility and then micromanage because you can’t let go? You search the Internet, obtain advice from family and friends, read product reviews, and hear the news on TV and via social media. Your advice is that “personal branding is less a marketing exercise than it is becoming the best person you can be.”

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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. It could never have happened unless leadership had the courage and competence to go to the source. Is this micromanagement?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Individual founders can become a barrier to growth if they are unable to let go of the details and micromanage, or fail to build a cohesive team around them, or allow hubris to get in their way. But over time the market changes and the company needs to change its model. But many individual founders aren’t scalable.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

There is no single greater influence over the success of the sales organization than how the sales leadership creates the sales culture and environment for the people who will work for them. In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. for the own failings.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? All one has to do is watch a very bright person defend their position to understand what I’m driving at with today’s post.

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