Micromanagement: The Creativity Killer

We’ve all encountered a micromanager at some point or another. Be it a former job or maybe even a current one, micromanagers are found in every industry and at every level of employment. Micromanagement typically leaves people with a bad taste in their mouth and visions of a boss breathing down the necks of employees may come to mind. This negative connotation associated with the word “micromanagement” is for a good reason – this way of managing kills creativity and stifles alternative ways of thinking that would otherwise be good for business.

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Unleash Breakthrough Profits By Unifying Your Sales And Marketing

In most businesses, there’s a huge disconnect between sales and marketing. Because sales teams usually exist as an island, content marketing teams have no way to influence sales. And then apart from sending leads to the conversion funnel, marketing never knows what happens to those leads once they’re sent.

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Tearing Down The Silos — Why Integrated Companies Perform Best

A lack of alignment typically leads to a raft of unintended consequences that pop up throughout the organization—not unlike a game of whack-a-mole. Engaging cross-functional teams to solve problems will significantly reduce the unintended consequences and further drive alignment into the organization.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Republished from Harvard Business Review, January 26, 2017
U.S. companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms. Yet, on average, companies deliver only 50% to 60% of the financial performance that their strategies and sales forecasts have promised.

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TED Talks Everyone in Management Should Listen To

Whether you’re new to being in management, or are a senior level manager to your team, being a supervisor means you have to acquire new skills in order to be successful and steer your team in the right direction. There are excellent resources to help those in leadership positions like books and videos, but TED Talks offer speeches given by experts in their field to give insight about specific topics. Many management talks exist on the site, but these are some of the most influential and educational to help you transform from manager to true leader. …

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