Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 27, 2012

In the world of business management, the game is played for keeps, but not all employees respond exclusively to a win-lose attitude. Avoid micromanaging. Nothing discourages initiative and strategic thinking like a hovering, critical manager. Getting to know your employees and the way that they work is essential.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

When you stay customer-focused, you set a foundation for long-term loyalty and trust that outlasts any market trend. When you empower your team to own their roles and results, they won’t need micromanagement—they’ll be unstoppable. As a leader, you must consistently ask, “How does this improve the experience for those we serve?”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Instead, Alibaba is what you get if you take every function associated with retail and coordinate them online into a sprawling, data-driven network of sellers, marketers, service providers, logistics companies, and manufacturers. This cannot be managed in the traditional way. Think enabling not managing.

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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.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 29, 2019

You’ve probably heard the saying that “good employees don’t leave bad companies, they leave bad managers,” or the more blunt “people don’t quit their company, they quit their manager.” The saying is built on the idea that good people leave because they are being managed poorly.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2016

Debbie Laskey is one of my go-to experts when I seek advice about a number of business topics, including marketing, social media, and nonprofit marketing and leadership. If they do, they need to enter the 21st century and understand that the communications specialty is just one aspect of an overall marketing plan.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results. Fuzzy Focus Too many change and organization improvement efforts are disconnected from the vital strategic issues keeping senior managers awake at night.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

Strong leaders are organized and diligent, tend to have a large amount of power over a group, and usually have to manage them. New products and services hit the market that have never been offered before. Micromanaging. However, you should refrain from micromanaging and trying to control every aspect of a project.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 18, 2020

According to Chron , the following indicators can be used to evaluate business performance – key operations variables, market performance, customer returns, and product quality and returns. Support your team but avoid micromanagement. Invest in marketing campaigns. Outsource business tasks.

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HR Digest

JUNE 25, 2023

In the face of the modern-day labor market, ensuring your employees are content and fulfilled is not just a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity. A survey by the Society for Human Resource Management found that companies with engaged employees are 20% more profitable than those with disengaged employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For some bravery could mean facing a tough personnel decision or making investment decisions to enter a new market. This requires staying close to the customer and anticipating where the market is going. Guest post from Darrin Murriner: Most people would agree that good leaders are brave leaders. Improve Decision Making.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2018

Supply chain management is sometimes considered as a posh name for logistics, but it does entail much more than making sure that products are delivered from Point A to B. If you are serious about improving your business and your productivity, you have to take supply chain management more seriously in the future. Improving Productivity.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 4, 2021

A Resilient Marketing Plan. All marketing strategies for 2020 went down the pan by about March time, and, as shown by the Keep Calm and Travel On campaigns, marketing had to adapt and change within days along with the changing guidelines issues by every country. A Strong Remote Working Policy. The Ability To Be Flexible.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2013

I always thought those lame questions were two of the most overused interview questions used by inexperienced hiring managers. Anyone in the job market, or soon to be in the job market, should at a minimum have answers for those questioned memorized and rehearsed. It’s also important in order to be a successful leader.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Micromanage. Eileen has a BA in Speech Communication from the University of Florida and did graduate work at the University of California, Irvine. 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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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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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 27, 2016

At the same time, many leaders occupy too much space, and micromanage those around them. And that fortitude, the ability to bear the burden of the unpleasant traffic situation, helped her be a better marketing VP at work as well. We have to make hard decisions and follow through on them. Both extremes are bad for business.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I’m in a small department and my manager is driving me crazy. He started at the company about a year ago and his overly emotional, micromanaging style does not suit me. I dread coming to work because of my manager. We’re about to start a major project that I will be managing. Miserable Marketer.

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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. Every business, market and industry comes with its own set of problems and challenges. Express what needs to be done with clarity and coherence. Allow people to do their job and excel at it. 3. Focus on goals and getting results.

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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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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2019

No matter which industry you are running your business in, you will need to ensure that you are offering more value or lower costs than your competitors to protect your market share. If you are trying to control or even micromanage every process in your organization, you are going to get overwhelmed very soon.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Are you a micromanager? 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 effect does this have on the flow of work coming from your area? What information do you rely on? Unported License.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog presents his post “ A Good Management System is Robust and Continually Improving ” and says, “ An organization succeeds because of the efforts of many great people. So how do you know if you’re slipping into the micro management trap?”

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

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. — The Product Management Perspective: Trust is vital for product managers. Followers trust it’s the right direction.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Considering the changing and difficult job market , the numbers aren’t surprising. In a grand example of the breakdown between management and workers, Hostess Brands recently declared bankruptcy after failed negotiations with its striking workers. This passionate focus is what separates managers from leaders, and rallies support.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

There's a reason why great chefs visit the farms and markets that source their restaurants: The raw ingredients are critical to success. The program managers' key performance indicator dashboards showed nothing alarmingly unusual except the seemingly usual slippage and delays associated with a complex project with moving parts worldwide.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2019

3) Avoid Distracting Communication: Some entrepreneurs will spend a lot of time micromanaging and refereeing personality conflicts in the workplace or engaging in their own workplace drama with partners, colleagues, and investors. Your time management is crucial to productivity and successful decision making.

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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

MAY 3, 2017

Naturally, the quality of the service or product, the success of the marketing campaigns, and the satisfaction of the customers and partners also play an essential role. While it can be designed in collaboration with the relevant manager, in truth, HR is in charge of defining the job perks that are likely to attract candidates.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Managers Can Change That. Art Petty suggests Respectfully Speaking, Let’s Cure Respect Deficit Disorder at Management Excellence. I love Joe and Wanda on Management. It’s a well-framed discussion of framing: Managers and Decision-Making. Jon Ingham presents Leading in the Love Shack at Management 2.0

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 23, 2019

It’s clearly a dynamic that leaders must manage in today’s world. New markets emerge overnight, or business models appear out of nowhere that put other organizations out of business in a snap of a finger. Everywhere you look in leadership circles it’s VUCA this or VUCA that.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Born in 1949, the American investor, philanthropist, and hedge fund manager is the founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer, and Co-Chairman of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s leading hedge funds with a more than $130 billion in assets under management. economy was in a bull market. With a net worth of $18.7

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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. Giddy even. But, for Google, analysts seem decidedly unhappy. And so on.).

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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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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

Do you delegate responsibility and then micromanage because you can’t let go? Your advice is that “personal branding is less a marketing exercise than it is becoming the best person you can be.” They view it as a PR or marketing exercise. Are you uncomfortable saying, “I’m finished” because an activity can always be improved?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Once you have established the management processes and settled into your daily tasks, running your business should be relatively straightforward. While there are often unexpected issues that need tackling, the longer that your business is running for, the easier it should be to manage.

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