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SIX STEPS TO STOP MICROMANAGING YOUR TEAM AND BUILD A HAPPIER CULTURE

Great Results Team Building

Micromanaging is the fastest way to demoralize your team and stifle productivity. However, one common obstacle severely undermines this synergy… Micromanagement kills team morale. However, one common obstacle severely undermines this synergy… Micromanagement kills team morale.

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Stefania Mallett, Founder of ezCater Creates a $1B Unicorn

N2Growth Blog

Their strategy is to use technology and reliable service to consolidate the highly fragmented foodservice industry. Confident in her idea, she piloted her plan in two markets—her hometown of Boston and Greensboro, North Carolina. Each market did reasonably well. ezCater is a global marketplace for business catering.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. The technology and business model Ming Zeng, the chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, describes in Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals About the Future of Strategy.

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4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees To Increase Productivity

Lead from Within

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 don’t have the technology, equipment, or resources to accomplish the things they’re expected to do, they become frustrated and, unsurprisingly, less productive. Give employees autonomy.

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Taking Chances to Lead Change in the 21st Century: Why It’s Cool Not to Be So Cool

Great Leadership By Dan

So much is unknown, and the new is everywhere--new technology, new economic models, new politics, new cultural norms, and new products and services. To succeed, leaders must find new ways for their organizations to satisfy rapidly evolving market and organizational demands. Much feels unpredictable, out of our control, uncomfortable.

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Leadership Development Carnival: June 2014 Edition

QAspire

In a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business environment where technology is constantly changing how people collaborate and work, the paradigms of leadership are changing. Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders says, “ Micromanaging is a dysfunctional behavior that most leaders fall into from time to time.