Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

They spend their time on day-to-day operations without ever articulating a vision. Effective leaders understand the power of an inspiring, purposeful vision in getting great work from their teams. They’re everywhere, it seems, and their micromanagement cuts off all the oxygen to productivity. Lack of delegation.

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How To Delegation Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 161

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

So the value of these powerful practices is often overlooked. Because micromanagement, the opposite of autonomy and the default behavior for many managers, puts people in a threatened state. The “Why” of Everyday Work People do not have just one way of operating. Perhaps it’s because they feel counter-intuitive to many managers.

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Motivation Proposal Stress Goal 279

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Carlos, her VP of operations, is a bright and solid asset to the firm. She feels unsafe and starts to micromanage Carlos, who then rebels, feels unappreciated, and grinds to a halt. The less developed, the more likely they will operate in the Critter State. He will not make a client-facing mistake. The right to exist 2.

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Quality ROI Micromanagement Commitment 177

HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

With 66 percent of workers operating remotely at least part-time, effective strategies for leading virtual teams have become paramount. Empathy is the key–understand their unique challenges and be flexible, focusing on outputs rather than micromanaging their every move. Set clear goals and objectives, leaving no room for ambiguity.

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Team Bond How To Management 52

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Operating on that assumption, here are reasons we believe the Situational Leadership ® content has not only withstood the test of time, but it is also actually gaining traction with organizations serious about building leaders and driving behavior change. Consistency of the learning experience, regardless of delivery modality, is another.

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Situational Leadership Leadership Argyris Influence 52

HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

Context Effective people management takes into account the broader context in which individuals and teams operate. Managing by Performance Effective people managers focus on outcomes and results rather than micromanaging tasks. Mentoring Mentoring is a powerful tool for employee development and engagement.

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Skills Management Emotional Intelligence Active Listening 98

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I’ve learned through experience that micromanaging doesn’t work. With a strong background in logistics and operations, he has helped launch multiple 8-figure companies and been instrumental in the increase of tens of millions of dollars in sales for many more. Trust is perhaps the most important principle in leadership.

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Succession Covey Leadership Long-term 70

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

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

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. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 86

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. There is great power in telling the truth. In a business where collaboration is poor and teams operate in silos, it is impossible to build trust. Importantly, they are able to facilitate interactions, are highly effective communicators and always seek to inspire others.

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Agility Morale Belief Systems Micromanagement 62

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

At its core, leadership isn’t about control, power, or a job title. Leaders need to harness the power of these connections. Completely distributed teams working from home mean that you couldn’t micromanage even if you wanted to. What are a few keys to communicating with power? Would you briefly touch on these? Connection.

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Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 105

QAspire

JULY 22, 2013

Where there are human beings, there will be dynamics of how they operate. People don’t need micromanagement. Rituals are powerful. Establishing rituals (daily stand-ups, weekly meetings, one-on-ones, retrospective meetings) are a powerful way to ensure that team stays on track. People are at the heart of a great team.

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Team How To Mentor Bottom-up 191

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. Used this way consistently and consciously, Prep-Do-Review becomes a powerful management tool that will improve how you manage your people.

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Micromanagement How To Delegation Review 15

Ron Edmondson

JULY 19, 2018

You should check your power at the table of decision-making. There may be times when you need a more active role in day-to-day operations, but those should be rare — not a regular occurrence. In the end, even though you shouldn’t micromanage, it is your job as a board member to protect the integrity of the organization.

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Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing Participative Quality 31

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 17, 2015

You should check your power at the table of decision-making. There may be times when you need a more active role in day-to-day operations, but those should be rare — not a regular occurrence. In the end, even though you shouldn’t micromanage, it is your job as a board member to protect the integrity of the organization.

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Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing Participative Edmondson 30

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. They tend to work very closely with what I call operators, that’s the second natural style. Operators are the symbolic opposite of visionaries. Same for the operator.

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Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Learning, not knowledge, will power organizations into the future; and the central champion of learning should be the manager. Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage. That way, the operation can be fully justifiable, one that runs the same way year in and out.

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Fayol Management Hamel Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Annoyed by this micromanagement, he immediately responds with his uncensored thoughts. To perform at the highest levels, remote teams have to find new and better ways to operate. Text-based communication places less importance on interpersonal skills and physical appearance, offering an effective way to share power and decision-making.

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Team How To Conference Micromanagement 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. I'm micromanaging from afar, not always the best solution, but that's what comes with trying to do it all," he said in a cheerful email. Slaughter went public with her decision to leave a top-ranking U.S. Not exactly your typical job.

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Chief Operating Officer Belief Systems Micromanagement Outsourcing 19

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.". Billions of dollars and millions of hours were spent to build and operate these systems. It's not that simple, especially for sales forces.

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CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Terrorist groups have disgruntled and disobedient members just like any other organization, so the leaders try to rope people into a particular way of doing things by setting up standard operating procedures and making sure those are followed. ” He is a notorious micromanager. ” He is a notorious micromanager.

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Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Terrorist groups have disgruntled and disobedient members just like any other organization, so the leaders try to rope people into a particular way of doing things by setting up standard operating procedures and making sure those are followed. ” He is a notorious micromanager. ” He is a notorious micromanager.

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Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

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. Special Operations teams trying to get the most use out of their helicopters, assets with high demand and limited supply. So Special Operations went with a third option.

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Self-aware Guidelines Objective Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. They may try to rationalize their micromanagement by arguing that every aspect of their venture’s success hinges upon their own exacting review.

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Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The Penguins were delighted with the idea that Perry would bring a refreshing new perspective to their operation and Perry, being an ambitious sort, was equally delighted to be chosen. Those jobs I found myself micromanaged nearly all the time, but I feel more productive and creative now than ever before. But then, the tide changed.

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Gordon Open-book Library Diversity 46

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Before one's tasteful nail polish could dry, The Huffington Post and MSNBC were sniggering about UBS's micromanagement. London's Daily Mail likewise derided the banking giant for " tak[ing] the sexiness out of the City." Perhaps the Swiss were a bit over the top in the particulars they imparted.

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EPS Banking Handbook Micromanagement 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In the survey, employees called out the kind of management offenses that point to a striking lack of emotional intelligence among business leaders, including micromanaging, bullying, narcissism, indecisiveness, and more. Vision that is too heavily weighted toward achievement at the expense of employee experience can exact a toll.

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Emotional Intelligence Energy Micromanagement Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The results point to the productive power of an engaged and inspired workforce. Most employees are not coin-operated, and more money does not lead to more engagement. ” Low spans of managerial control often lead supervisors to micromanage their teams. So the company overinvests in the economic rewards for the job.

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360-Degree Feedback Maslow Mission Statement Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Passionate about medicine, he wanted to hire someone to run the business operations of his practice. Organizational psychologist Fred Fiedler and colleagues note the power of another critical question : “Tell me about your least preferred coworker.” James is a leading ophthalmologist at a major medical clinic.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Skills Micromanagement 8

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Workplace bullying definition can be based on its characteristics: repetition, duration, power disparity, attributed intent and escalation. It is a difficult type of workplace aggression because workplace bullies usually operate within the organizational regulations. Make unreasonable demands or illogical requests.

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Document Definition Handbook Micromanagement 88

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

No one likes to be micromanaged. Unfortunately, many leaders result to meddling with the process in attempts to maintain a false sense of power. Micromanagers focus explicitly on the how, which often results in short-term success at the expense of the long-term strategy, overall scalability, and employee satisfaction.

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Simon Micromanagement Leadership Styles CFO 248

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The FRC restricted WCFL’s hours and reduced its power. “Interference” need not require micromanagement of devices, networks, or applications. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Instead of having operations mandated, cellular carriers were given defined spectrum spaces.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2017

Sometimes a non-family CEO plays the role of villain in these situations, the blame lies more often with the owners, who created a power vacuum for others to fill. ” If your family ownership group walks on eggshells around your non-family CEO, your behavior may signal a dangerous imbalance of power.

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CEO Micromanagement Self-aware Objective 9

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Laissez-Faire Leadership Style In a Laissez-Faire leadership model, the leader and team are assigned equal power, rather than a leader micromanaging their staff. This differs from conventional models, allowing team members to take on greater autonomy while the leader focuses on business operations.

Power 52

Power Leadership Leadership Styles Long-term 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

At their best, companies realize that not everything is easily measurable, or should be measured, and that constant temperature taking and micromanagement are inefficient and demoralizing. This unusual combination of squads, tribes, chapters, and guilds is the organizational infrastructure that underlies Spotify’s operating model.

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Agility Innovation Span of Control Objective 8