The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

To draw out these ideas, managers have sometimes tried formalized approaches like suggestion systems. The king micromanaged and pushed hard for quick delivery. Sounds like he operated by the classic autocrat’s creed; “All those opposed to my plan, respond by saying ‘I resign.'” These have mostly failed.

Energy 52

Energy Power Focus Group Decentralization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Generally, most jobs are performed by employees who operate the machines, run business models and design new corporate procedures. Create an employee feedback and reporting system. That’s the essence of employees’ feedback system. Rather than running a micromanagement system, give room for a management that’s more liberal.

Productivity 69

Productivity Products Metrics Micromanagement 69

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.

Team 52

Team Bond How To Management 52

QAspire

APRIL 23, 2013

Quality you deliver has everything to do with how much you own your work , your actions and its respective impact on the other parts of the system you operate in. When you produce work that is useful, qualitative and something that others find valuable, it feeds your self-esteem and makes you a better individual.

Quality 153

Quality Micromanagement Career Stress 153

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

With the number of remote workers on the rise due to new technologies, more companies are beginning to offer remote opportunities as a means of promoting talent acquisition, retention, work flexibility and above all, less operational cost. A tracking system is important while managing remote employees.

Management 81

Management How To Micromanagement Efficiency 81

Mike Cardus

MAY 31, 2013

If the goals are too small people feel micromanaged. Contact Mike to develop team processes and managerial-leadership systems that will increase productivity and completion of great work. Anthony, “Isn’t that micromanaging?”. Contextual Goals Matter. If the goals are too large people are lost and unsure what to do, macromanaged.

Case Study 130

Case Study Goal Leadership Micromanagement 130

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

We met again shared their ideas and created changes to how the work gets done, plus the performance appraisal and reinforcement system , numbers went up in two weeks. Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. Informal training of teams and groups.

Resistance 141

Resistance Franchising Power Management 141

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

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. Studies show that the brain’s reward system is directly activated by helping others.

Motivation 279

Motivation Proposal Stress Goal 279

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

These complaints often construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards each other. Create-Learning believes that people want to do their best work, and that systems drive behavior. Improve the systems, and unleash the capacity of people to do great work and love what they do.

Cooper 148

Cooper Resistance Team Building Micromanagement 148

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.

Succession 70

Succession Covey Leadership Long-term 70

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2019

Leaders who understand the importance of collaboration in business have a belief system that everyone has the ability to develop, learn and contribute. There is no place for micromanagement. In a business where collaboration is poor and teams operate in silos, it is impossible to build trust. Consider the opposite.

Agility 62

Agility Morale Belief Systems Micromanagement 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2018

Having an effective supply chain management system in place will reduce idle times in your business. If you have an effective supply chain management system set up, you’ll be able to get everyone the right job in your organization. Reduced Operational Expenses. Improving Productivity. Utilizing Talent Better.

Supply Chain 51

Supply Chain Management Quality Competitive Advantage 51

QAspire

JULY 22, 2013

Where there are human beings, there will be dynamics of how they operate. People don’t need micromanagement. Have systems in place. Good team work is mathematics – it adds leverage, divides work and multiplies success. People are at the heart of a great team. Human dynamics remain the same –be it team, family or community.

Team 191

Team How To Mentor Bottom-up 191

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. Their raft might be micromanaging what gets done and how it gets done. It will help you determine how to change your “broadcasts” in a more systemic way.

Competitive Advantage 92

Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 92

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. It’s not our audience!”

Resistance 8

Resistance How To Audience Micromanagement 8

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.

Brainstorming 60

Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. 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.

Health Care 9

Health Care System Metrics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage. Repetitive to innovative: Managers often encourage predictability — they want things nailed down, systems in place, and existing performance measures high. That way, the operation can be fully justifiable, one that runs the same way year in and out.

Fayol 15

Fayol Management Hamel Learning-by-Doing 15

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. Focus on Learning, Not Pressure.

Motivation 11

Motivation How To Learning-by-Doing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

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

CRM 13

CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

where vacations are short, sabbaticals are rare, school schedules don't align with office hours, and working parents cobble together their own costly support systems. Does that kind of belief system make it easier to accept limitations and tradeoffs? This is especially true in the U.S., Not exactly your typical job.

Chief Operating Officer 18

Chief Operating Officer Belief Systems Micromanagement Outsourcing 18

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. Mistaking quick thinking for systems thinking. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team.

CEO 8

CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

The merchandising force operates with an unusually high span of control of 50 merchandisers per manager. Managers may micromanage their people. information systems, onboarding, and training), and the extent to which salespeople are empowered to act without close management supervision. Customer management.

Span of Control 8

Span of Control Company Merchandising Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Special Operations teams trying to get the most use out of their helicopters, assets with high demand and limited supply. Another would be to have a computer automate the process, but there would be no way to feed enough data into the system in real time. So Special Operations went with a third option.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Guidelines Objective Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Paul Klein, Senior Vice President of Information Systems and Chief Process Officer at Rich Products Corporation (the $3 billion food manufacturer), is always looking for the next source of customer value. They manage influence, figuring out who is impacted by change, what motivates them, and how they can be effectively engaged.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The system worked. In 1925 Hoover offered that the system was enabling a “vastly increasing number of messages” to be “kept upon the air without destroying each other.” “Interference” need not require micromanagement of devices, networks, or applications. By 2012 some 75% did.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It has to put the strategy into practice with measurable objectives, consistent measurement of progress toward those goals, feedback systems to monitor activities along the way, and appropriate consequences for reaching or failing to reach the goals. They establish transparent boundary conditions and clear expectations.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Span of Control Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. You don’t have to micromanage them, just provide clear, high-level direction. But there are some common pain points.

Tools 8

Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. Instead, there is independent and autonomous local decision making that operates within the guidelines and protocols established by the leaders above. They Suspend Negative Belief Systems. Circumstances change very quickly in sales.

Organization 8

Organization Belief Systems Micromanagement Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Many companies claim that hiring the best people is “job one,” but traditional hiring systems don’t make it easy. Managers who hold negative assumptions micromanage, lock up needed supplies, withhold important information, and create senseless rules and policies, causing even the best people to lose passion for what they do.

Policies 14

Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Agile processes go awry, because as companies strive for high performance, they either become too tactical (focusing too much on process and micromanagement) or too adaptive (avoiding long-term goals, timelines, or cross-functional collaboration). The company realized they wasted a lot of time and money. ” These are not pods.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. These fads ironically lead to micromanaging and, often, to disaster. Blog Post ). The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

power, water, and mass transit systems painfully illustrates that point. That bill also made clear that Congress never intended the FCC to have the discretion to transform broadband into a public utility at will, and in doing so subject it to rate regulation and other micromanagement. The sad state of most U.S.

Objective 8

Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8