Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage. That way, the operation can be fully justifiable, one that runs the same way year in and out. Many managers have told us that their number one job is “putting out fires,” fixing the problems that have naturally arisen from operating the business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

With the combination of cloud storage and computing, mobile technologies, and powerful analytical and predictive tools, we can start mining 'big data' and reaping huge rewards.". We commonly see new technologies overhyped; their capabilities are promoted beyond their potential. It's not that simple, especially for sales forces.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Annoyed by this micromanagement, he immediately responds with his uncensored thoughts. To perform at the highest levels, remote teams have to find new and better ways to operate. The solution will not come from new technologies (although, no doubt, developers will keep trying to bridge that gap). At 10 p.m.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Terrorist groups have disgruntled and disobedient members just like any other organization, so the leaders try to rope people into a particular way of doing things by setting up standard operating procedures and making sure those are followed. ” He is a notorious micromanager. ” He is a notorious micromanager.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Terrorist groups have disgruntled and disobedient members just like any other organization, so the leaders try to rope people into a particular way of doing things by setting up standard operating procedures and making sure those are followed. ” He is a notorious micromanager. ” He is a notorious micromanager.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Apprenticeship manager, The Co-operative Group That cultural change that is given by approaching a problem differently, or a management situation differently, again, it’s, kind of, forcing that ripple effect of change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. They may try to rationalize their micromanagement by arguing that every aspect of their venture’s success hinges upon their own exacting review.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As directors and management teams adapt, they’re bumping into limits—both on the amount of time directors can be asked to spend before the role is no longer attractive and on the scope of the activities they can undertake before creating organizational noise or concerns among top executives about micromanagement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Many LPs are also still learning how best to be effective investors by providing support and demanding accountability, without micromanaging. The challenge is that senior experienced operational talent in Mexico usually isn't interested in bearing the risk and hardship of working in the still-struggling VC industry.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

So, rather than micromanaging that happens quite a lot in accidental managers, that much more, kind of, coaching and mentoring type of style of management and leadership is obviously taught within CMI programmes, and then that ripples back out to empower people and it allows individuals around them to grow as well.

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Products Productivity Short-term Proposal 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Taylor, the 19th century guru of time and motion studies, which were used by management to micromanage workers; to tell them not only what to do but also how to do it. At the same time, technology has the potential to take us back to Theory X. This was the popular perspective espoused by Fredrick W.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. Instead, there is independent and autonomous local decision making that operates within the guidelines and protocols established by the leaders above. A competitor's new technology may leapfrog yours.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Agile processes go awry, because as companies strive for high performance, they either become too tactical (focusing too much on process and micromanagement) or too adaptive (avoiding long-term goals, timelines, or cross-functional collaboration). The company realized they wasted a lot of time and money. ” These are not pods.

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