CO2

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Additionally, questions increase accountability without micromanaging. ” “Is there alignment between our stated and operating values?” Another tactic is to start each staff meeting with a strategic question focused on solving current problems or capitalizing on future opportunities.

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Power Drucker Self-aware Ethics 78

The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

Team Decisions and Collective Actions Functional silos and vertical accountability often create disparate groups of hard-driving leaders who meet to share information and provide individual input to budgets and operational plans. Meetings are mostly data dumps, this week’s firefighting, and operational/technical problem-solving.

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Development Team Short-term Teamwork 98

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The next tension is between micromanagement and hands-off leadership styles. Disciplined standard operating procedures, repeatable processes, and consistent methodologies are helpful in any organization. Therefore, it is imperative that leaders focus on only the most likely contingencies that might arise for each phase of an operation.

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Leadership Follow-up Planning Micromanagement 310

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

They spend their time on day-to-day operations without ever articulating a vision. They’re everywhere, it seems, and their micromanagement cuts off all the oxygen to productivity. Never in the history of the world have these tactics caused anyone to do better work. Lack of delegation.

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How To Delegation Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 162

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

When we’re at capacity, we use the one or two tools in our toolbox to manage conflict: shaming, intimidating, or some other tactic. The point is, they’re every bit as uncomfortable with conflict as the person who avoids or appeases; they just have a different method of operation. They say things like “The buck stops here.”

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Workshop Micromanagement Skills Open-book 126

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. It’s a common misconception that “command-and-control” is synonymous with micromanagement.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 86

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 what she does really well is come back up.

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Micromanagement Constraint Middle Management Long-term 12