N2Growth Blog

MAY 27, 2019

We dictate vs. delegate, we micromanage to ensure success and we act selfishly to preserve our status within the corporate hierarchy. You need to create a marketing plan for yourself. Part of the solution is to become better contemporary leaders. I think as a class of leaders we have become complacent in terms of how we lead.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Avoid micromanaging. A middle ground can be maintained between complete freedom and micromanagement , but each employee requires a different balance. The Product Management Perspective: As a product manager you have a major influence on all those responsible for creating, marketing and selling your products.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2013

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. Attention to detail turns into micromanaging; confidence turns into arrogance, and being a good problem solver leads to an inability to delegate and develop others.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2025

They need clarity about what kind of business to pursue within your target markets and, equally as important, what to say away from because it is not a good match, even if they could make a sale. Your sales team needs clear direction about their role in creating value and how they can execute in a way that differentiates your business.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Do Not Mistake Delegation for Abdication Leaders are frequently told to delegate, and for good reasonyour time is best spent on high-level strategy, not micromanagement. Milestones, progress reports, and performance reviews are not micromanagement; they are the mechanisms through which accountability is enforced. Trust, but verify.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 5, 2022

In the current competitive employment market, investing in your employees is not just a good thing to do—it’s the right thing to do. When people feel that they’re being micromanaged or there’s only one acceptable way to do the work they’re given, they feel constrained and unvalued. Give employees autonomy.

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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. Instead of micromanaging the firm, management creates the organization’s architecture to run itself.

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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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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

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. Micromanagement kills morale and imagination. On the other hand, creativity is free flowing, chaotic, and unrestrained.

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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. This is a fine line to walk as a leader.

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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. Or, How To Make Micromanagement Work For You | Product Management Meets Pop Culture , on November 25, 2009 at 7:01 am said: [.]

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 25, 2025

Case Study From Accidental Manager to Inspiring Leader Deon Pillayi CMgr MCMI is Head of Marketing Technology, Enablement and Governance at Legal and General Investment Management. Bad managers Deon worked for during his career, he says, were the ones who micromanaged, and its clear that this has shaped his management style today.

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Brigette Hyacinth

JANUARY 25, 2021

I was stuck in a dead-end job with a micromanager who kept blocking my attempts to move up. Although the job market is tough, start taking small steps to where you want to be. The day I left the comfort of my old job is that day I decided to jump. I would like to let every single person know that it is possible to replace your job.

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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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Lead from Within

AUGUST 27, 2024

They understand market trends and prepare for future challenges. Wannabe leaders either micromanage, fearing delegation, or delegate improperly. They are motivated more by a desire to be liked or admired. This can skew their decision-making and priorities. This might impair their ability to navigate future challenges effectively.

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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.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders says, “ Micromanaging is a dysfunctional behavior that most leaders fall into from time to time. and presents her post “ The Insiders Guide to Micromanagement ”. ( @LetsGrowLeaders ). So how do you know if you’re slipping into the micro management trap?”

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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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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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LDRLB

JANUARY 29, 2019

Talented people want the ability to display their talent—the thought process goes—and so suffering through micromanagement or constant negative treatment isn’t worth it for them. Moreover, because they’re so talented, the job market isn’t a terrifying though to them, it’s a comforting one.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Organizations should market the great things they are doing to educate the public on internal best practices. Kathy C presents 7 ways to do this in Leverage What You Do Right in Your Marketing Plan ! Anecdotally, we all know that micromanagers are a headache to work with. Gotta love a blog called Epic Living !

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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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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

They need clarity about what kind of business to pursue within your target markets and, equally as important, what to say away from because it is not a good match, even if they could make a sale. Your sales team needs clear direction about their role in creating value and how they can execute in a way that differentiates your business.

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I would add to the Decide to engage point that you should not micromanage. The more thoughtful we are of these decisions, the more effective we will be as a leader. K Reply Douglas W. Green, EdD September 27, 2010 at 1:00 pm Kevin: Excellent post. I am sure you know this. You also have to trust their judgement and support them.

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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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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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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Before his hiatus from Apple, in 1985, his entrepreneurial meddling and micromanagement had gotten out of control. A reporter who asked Jobs about the market research that went into the iPad was famously told, "None. But the years away reportedly helped him develop his leadership style and begin ceding more responsibilities to others.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Considering the changing and difficult job market , the numbers aren’t surprising. They gather and develop the talent in their organization, and are able to delegate tasks, and not micromanage. Workers biggest complaints were on-the-job stress, insufficient benefits and low wages. Great leaders trust the people under them.

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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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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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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. According to a report by Glassdoor , companies named in the “Best Places to Work” list consistently outperform their competitors in the stock market.

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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. They’d slipped and face-planted into all five of the following failure factors I’ve noted over decades of research, writing, and consulting work.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

He started at the company about a year ago and his overly emotional, micromanaging style does not suit me. Miserable Marketer. I don’t love my job, but I’ve liked it enough until recently. I’m in a small department and my manager is driving me crazy. Because we work closely on major projects, neither is an option.

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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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The Practical Leader

MAY 22, 2024

Micromanagement — Like the perception of fair compensation, micromanagement depends on whether we’re giving or receiving it. Most managers don’t feel they’re micromanaging. Here are nine signs of micromanagement. However, 360 assessments of less effective managers often paint a different picture.

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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. Is this micromanagement? There's both a cultural and personal difference between this kind of micromanagement and being a control freak.

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