Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Linda Fisher Thornton of LeadinginContext contributed Ethical Thinking: Sifting For Values. Linda shares: “ While we may think about ethics from time to time, ethical thinking is different. Here are six clues to help you decide if you’re micromanaging your employees. Find Linda on Twitter at @leadingincontxt.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Do you feel that you stayed true to your ethics and that your decision grew you as a leader in your organization? Are you a micromanager? I’d like you to think back to three major or difficult decisions you had to make over the past year and review how did you make them? What was the result? What information do you rely on?

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Demonstrate the work ethic, integrity, and commitment you expect from your team members. Don’t #1: Micromanage Your Team Micromanaging can stifle creativity and demotivate your team members. Do #1: Lead by Example: One of the most powerful ways to lead is by setting a positive example for your team.

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Leading in Context

JULY 24, 2019

Control (At the Wrong Stage of Development) Controlling parenting (for example micromanaging a teen’s […]. Here are some things many parents do without realizing they may be contributing to the very problems they are trying to prevent.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 1, 2012

Here's Bernd Geropp , from More Leadership, Less Management, with Micromanagers and the e -mail trap. Linda Fisher Thornton from her Leading in Context Blog presents Leading for Ethical Performance. Art Petty , from his Management Excellence blog, presents Just One Thing: Always Add Clarity to Challenge.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

micromanaging. Do values, ethics, integrity and trust play a prominent enough role in the work you do? Of the more innocent you have…. Demanding things at short notice. Telling people what to do and how to do it. Cancelling meetings at short notice. Closely monitoring work ? Asking people to do things without giving them a reason why.

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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. To be a strong leader, you need to show an unshakeable work ethic. You set the bar of potential through your own work ethic, but you also have to shore up your defenses and patch up any weaknesses.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 27, 2024

Wannabe leaders either micromanage, fearing delegation, or delegate improperly. Leading by Example: Winning leaders consistently lead by example, demonstrating the work ethic, integrity, and passion they expect from their team. They trust their capabilities. This leads to inefficiencies and frustration among team members.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The moves to better enable employees sometimes suffer; without trust, micromanagement, poor engagement, or even lost staff can occur. Assuming that employees are responsible and trustworthy implies that we believe in their ability to perform, make reasonable decisions and act ethically.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 17, 2025

It added that the shareholder proposal was an inappropriate attempt to micromanage the companys business strategy. The iPhone maker responded that it had a well-established compliance program and that was Anti-DEI Proposal was unnecessary.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Micromanage. When asked about a subject that is not currently taught universally in school but should be, Eileen commented on the importance of education about ethics. The reasons are obvious but the best part was saying thank you on stage to people whom I dearly love.” Watch their every move.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Anecdotally, we all know that micromanagers are a headache to work with. Ah, leadership & ethics. Linda Fisher Thornton presents Ethical Leadership Context at Leading in Context. Linda Fisher Thornton presents Ethical Leadership Context at Leading in Context.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

The best leaders have to show all those they lead how their decisions align with the organization’s vision, goals, targets and ethics. The worst thing a leader can do is to micromanage the talented people they have hired. Here are 16 traits and skills that are central to great leadership: 1. Clarity of purpose.

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HR Digest

JULY 25, 2019

People are put into a position to manage others as a reflection of their proven qualities in performance, work ethics, and their ability to help others in various ways to improve. Empower your team and avoid micromanagement. Micromanagement makes life more difficult as a first-time manager.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

If people analytics does not involve ethical consideration then it could expose workers to increased risks and stress. This is ethically wrong if people analytics leads to job replacement, job restructuring and job description changes, among other things. OSHA Risks.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 1, 2013

To maximize our potential in a rapidly changing global economy, people recognize the need for leadership ethics more than ever before. Build Effective Leadership Skills. Send leadership tips to your Kindle: [link]. Bottom Line: Leadership development is self-development.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Additionally, questions increase accountability without micromanaging. ” Addressing gaps between talk and action promotes an ethical culture. Best Questions to Lead By The most effective leaders ask a variety of strategic questions, including: Values: “Are we as focused on ethics as profits?”

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If you want to encourage ownership , don’t micromanage. Do You Have a Strong Work Ethic? Keep your paws off. Do you push people away because you’re a control freak — and then complain that you’re doing all the work yourself? Get on the same page. One of the primary sources of arguments is lack of communication.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Micromanagement : Overly controlling leaders who do not trust their team to perform tasks independently can stifle creativity and initiative. Micromanagement signals a lack of confidence in the team’s abilities and can lead to low morale and job dissatisfaction.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2020

Always lead with the highest standards of ethics and integrity. Employees want to be part of an organization with high ethical standards and work for a leader that lives by those standards. Don’t micromanage. So, how does one earn the trust of others? We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. Their raft might be micromanaging what gets done and how it gets done. But that’s not the only thing rotten about that culture.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Micromanagement Believing that employees are incapable of doing things on their own leads to conflict and tension and pushes people away. Micromanagement only causes frustration and hampers team members’ abilities to really thrive. Take work ethic, for example. You have to be agile and willing to adapt.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Micromanagement gets most of the attention, but under-management may be just as big a problem. He praised my abilities (my knowledge of our business and my work ethic), but added, “Frankly, I don’t know if you want to handle conflict. Chalermphon Kumchai/EyeEm/Getty Images. I still remember his exact words.

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Miles Anthony Smith

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

According to a study done by the Harvard Business Review , a good leader is ethical, goal-oriented, communicates well, and is flexible , to name a few adjectives. This means delegating tasks to them, giving them bigger projects, and not micromanaging them. ​ Click "READ MORE" to unlock the 31 good leadership qualities.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 17, 2015

In the end, even though you shouldn’t micromanage, it is your job as a board member to protect the integrity of the organization. Can Non-Profit Work Encourage a Poor Work Ethic? You have influence places the organization may not yet have. Use your network of connections for the good of the organization. Ask good questions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

He had been experiencing a serious performance plateau that was, he learned, an effect of his micromanaging and intimidating his direct reports. By becoming aware of these tendencies, he also saw that while his workaholic ethic had gotten him his position, as a leadership strategy it no longer worked for him.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2018

Having a boss who lets you do as you please may sound ideal, especially if you are being bullied and micromanaged by your current boss. Absentee leaders rarely engage in unforgivable bouts of bad behavior, and are rarely the subject of ethics investigations resulting from employee hotline calls. Tasha Eurich.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

At work, leaders with higher levels of self-control display more effective leadership styles – they are more likely to inspire and intellectually challenge their followers, instead of being abusive or micromanaging. But what happens when people lack self-control at work? billion annually.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Many have stories to tell about stumbling along the way, about micromanaging people, about destroying a team’s morale with unreasonable demands, about losing a great team member because enough time and attention weren’t given to the relationship. Is it family, health, well-being, happiness at work and in life, ethics?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

But consider the micromanager who asks you to document every step of your calculations so that he can be sure you got the right answer. Only leaders perceived as moderate in their ethical requests were effective in promoting positive employee behavior. That in turn hurt morale and left employees feeling mistrustful.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

While it may feel to you like you’re a martyr to the job, other people might see it as you hoarding work, micromanaging, or having trouble delegating or collaborating. Of course, when those rules are ethical or legal in nature, we can all agree that they shouldn’t be broken.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Contrary to popular belief, there are universal traits that predict whether individuals will be part of an organization’s vital few, such as their higher levels of intelligence, work ethic, and social skills. In other words, people who are smart, nice, and hard-working tend to outperform their peers.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 23, 2024

Instead of micromanaging everything that people do, trust them to do what’s right. Do You Have A Strong Work Ethic? Instead of exercising authority and control , secure commitment by involving folks in the decision-making process and obtaining mutually agreed-upon goals. Scarce resources. Low levels of trust. It’s Your Life to Live.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

“When you have a micromanaging boss, for example, it’s easy to think that your biggest priority is to work for a manager who doesn’t smother you, but if you seek out that one thing, you may end up being unhappy for slightly different reasons.” Ethics Feature. ” Run experiments. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

The business books would advise me to micromanage less, delegate more. Important information to have before you judge yourself or anyone else as being too much of a micromanager. These issues a) aren't as academically fascinating to us as corporate ethics and finance, b) are messy, and c) often hit too close to home.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Employees who don’t trust their managers usually point to big-picture, obvious things: Their superiors skate the edges of ethical behavior, hide information, take credit for others’ hard work, or flat-out deceive people. To demonstrate positive assumptions, show that you reject micromanaging. And promote transparency.

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