In my experience, a micromanager micromanages for three main reasons. First, they were once the subject matter expert on the particular task they now are responsible for managing. The micomanager’s manager must mentor the necessary skills for strategy-management, so the alleged ‘micro’manger can mentor the people performing the tasks. If the ‘micro’manager is mentoring on [...]
Way Three: The Way Threes are the vision coordinators. They are the what to the Way Twos’ how. In many senses, they play the most important role in any organization. If you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves, meaning if you pay attention to detail in carrying out tasks, then the business objectives will [...]
Way Two: There are days when the Way Two will tell you it’s like the lyrics to the Stealers Wheel hit from the 1970s: “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you.” Conventional wisdom says that an idea without action is a pipe dream. But [...]
Are you the CVO (Chief Vision Officer) of your company? Do you micromanage or empower your direct reports. Are your business objectives, business results getting accomplished? Do you carry the ‘passion-torch’ throughout the company everyday? Does everyone see the same vision as you? Are you the VP of Vision. Does the CVO constantly run in [...]
There is so much noise out in the world today. Words fly around so fast, Vision, Strategy, Tactics, Details, Objectives and on and on. It appears that each person has a different translation to these familiar but confusing terms. ROE puts all of this in perspective AND allows you to see where you fit. I [...]