Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 25, 2019

To succeed, leaders must find new ways for their organizations to satisfy rapidly evolving market and organizational demands. You could explore a new market outside of your core business based on customer requests for help. They appear in many well-known forms: Micromanagement, personalizing, and conflict avoidance top the list.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

In their paper, Workplace Wellbeing and Firm Performance , they report, “We find that wellbeing is associated with firm profitability and that companies with the highest levels of wellbeing also subsequently outperform standard benchmarks in the stock market. Well-being promotes higher creativity with more novel and useful ideas.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 24, 2016

Regardless of your personal feelings about the development and use of the atomic bomb, this bit of history is one clear example of the power in helping people find meaning in their work. Savvy marketers understand this and shape brands to appeal to how we like to think of ourselves. The Organization’s Story is my Story.

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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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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. John Durfee is a Gulf War veteran and the marketing manager for Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft Guns including Spring Airsoft Rifles. This is a fine line to walk as a leader.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Are you a micromanager? recent posts 3 Tips To Take More Powerful Notes During Meetings. What tools do you have at your disposal to help you better adapt to changes in the marketplace and the competition? Decision-making Do you make fast decisions or really take your time? What information do you rely on? Smile or Die!

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

As I began reading them it didn’t take me long to realize the power of this book. 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. 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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Leading with Trust

JUNE 23, 2019

Unpredictability and chaos breed distrust, so just by living in a VUCA world, distrust has the power to run rampant. New markets emerge overnight, or business models appear out of nowhere that put other organizations out of business in a snap of a finger. But what exactly is VUCA? Volatility has to do with the speed of change.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

You can read more in this his powerful post titled “ Having Tea with the Dragon ”. ( @DanOestreich ). Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders says, “ Micromanaging is a dysfunctional behavior that most leaders fall into from time to time. and presents her post “ The Insiders Guide to Micromanagement ”. ( @LetsGrowLeaders ).

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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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2019

There is no place for micromanagement. Justin Aldridge, Technical Director at Artemis Marketing , understands the importance of his team in the drive to be the most forward-thinking and innovative digital SEO agency around. There is great power in telling the truth. Honest leaders are much more able to build loyalty and trust.

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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. It moves power away from the people and towards titled leadership.

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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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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Hats off to Michael Lee Stallard for Starbucks’ CEO’s Broken Heart , which demonstrates the power that comes from doing business with a heaping serving of humanity. Organizations should market the great things they are doing to educate the public on internal best practices. At Saleskick. Posted at Michael Lee Stallard.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

That’s what sent her down the path of looking for grossly inappropriate ways to exercise some power. This is important: in the absence of the rigor of the market place, dividend policy is a means of enforcing discipline on management through the constraint on resources that management can access for the business.

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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. A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of the other way around. Every business, market and industry comes with its own set of problems and challenges. With great power comes great responsibility.

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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. Not everyone wants a high-powered career. One participant from Berg, Dutton, and Wrzesniewski’s research redesigned her marketing job to include more event planning, even though it wasn’t originally part of her job.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Burnout is also driven by the always-on digital workplace, too many priorities, and the expectation that employees can use their digital tools to multitask and power through their workloads. And few employees have the power—or temerity—to call off unnecessary meetings. But company leaders can do something.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. 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.

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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. Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Brescoll and her team looked at two other traditionally male jobs with considerable power – the CEO of an engineering firm and the chief judge of a state supreme court. Were there any other highly respected, powerful roles people associated with women? The pattern persisted.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

For the last 200 years, entrepreneurial prowess enabled by financial capital has powered a long surge of economic growth. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on. laura schneider FOR HBR. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

With the combination of cloud storage and computing, mobile technologies, and powerful analytical and predictive tools, we can start mining 'big data' and reaping huge rewards.". 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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

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. Sarah, the ambitious CEO who micromanaged her team, spoke with one of the few people she trusted, an old business school friend.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

At Bain, we call these initiatives “micro-battles” and believe they are a powerful tool for fighting back against the complexity that slows companies down when trying to implement strategy. Though they may sound like an exercise in micromanagement, they are actually the opposite.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

While these senior executives, 20-something bankers, and mid-career marketers, analysts, and lawyers all knew that they wanted to leave their current roles, executing their plan proved to be a perennially insurmountable challenge. In fact, the most common question I got was, "How can I overcome the hurdles to quitting and actually quit ?".

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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

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. That is why live business projects can be powerful vehicles for learning, especially when they aim for dramatic outcomes on a tight timeframe. Make it a stretch.

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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.". We believe doctrine offers a powerful model for executives looking to pierce the fog of business and find new ways of exerting influence without centralized control. How can you apply doctrine to your company?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

And don’t micromanage. ” It’s your job to encourage them to network and to “help them develop their capacity to engage with others and learn the power of collaboration.” “Demonstrate trust by delegating authority and responsibility” over certain projects and tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The FRC restricted WCFL’s hours and reduced its power. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. .” “Interference” need not require micromanagement of devices, networks, or applications. The station, to avoid even worse, came to terms.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Although these tenets are similarly used within military units to enforce chain of command, sales leaders prefer to use motivation and the force of their personal character before employing the power associated to their title. In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer N2growth Author/Moderator Facebook Twitter LinkedIn You Tube Blog Feed Favorite Posts Dont Negotiate.Facilitate Leadership and Opportunity Leadership & Political Correctness How To Make Great Leadership Decisions Buzzwords Arent All Bad Success vs. Thanks for sharing Elliot.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

To be clear, I agree with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who recently acknowledged that net neutrality principles have been and will continue to be strictly enforced not by regulation but by powerful market forces. power, water, and mass transit systems painfully illustrates that point. The sad state of most U.S. Not exactly.

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