Each week, I collect the resources related to leadership I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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Micromanagement is mismanagement.
Julie Winkle Giulioni:
“10 strategies for responding to a micromanager” (1-10-23).
“[M]icromanagement doesn’t take a toll on morale and productivity alone. It also negatively impacts motivation, efficacy, confidence, creativity and well-being — and frequently results in unwanted turnover.”
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McKinsey & Company:
“Some employees are destroying value. Others are building it. Do you know the difference?” (9-11-23).
“Our data show that 45 percent of thriving stars work remotely, compared with 36 percent in hybrid environments and only 19 percent in person. As some of our past research has shown, this might indicate significant talent advantages to providing employees, particularly an organization’s best talent, with autonomy and flexibility in how they work.”
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Frank Sonnenberg:
“How to Work Smart and Achieve More” (9-12-23).
“The phrase work smarter not harder creates a false dichotomy. The fact is that working smart is not a substitute for working hard. Although it’s critical to employ every strategy that improves your outcome, hard work is indispensable to achieve more. …. The only thing standing in the way of you and astronomical success is the will and the desire to make it a reality.”
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Diana Coker:
“The Importance of Positive Workplace Culture” (7-27-23).
“The healthiest and most productive cultures are the ones in which employees feel free to share their voice, raise concerns, ask questions, and express their needs. Companies should encourage upward feedback and open the line to two-way workplace communication.”
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Gregg Vanourek quotes from The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators (2011):
“How to Use Questioning to Drive Innovation” (7-10-23).
“‘Our research found that not only do innovators ask more questions than noninnovators, they also ask more provocative ones.'”
