micro manager
bottleneck
all decisions
mini me
mentally drained
urgency as a default
task checker
alerts
emotionally drained
yes people
decision fatigue
small decision boomerang
doers not solvers
notifications
no push back
$3,000,000,000,000
G. Hamel & M. Zanini, HBR 2016
See what’s possible
Create an environment where
it’s safe to try and safe to fail
Old Way: Told what to do
🤔 🤷♀️
New Way: Your decision
💪 🧠
Cultivates input
Learning
Responsible
New Way: Your decision
Excited about the result
No input
No learning
No responsibility
Old Way: Told what to do
Removed from the result
🦕
🔮
“...autonomy removes learned helplessness. It rekindles that child-like curiosity and the need for mastery that each of us possesses.”
How Behavioral Economics Influences Management Decision Making, 2018
Decreased Autonomy
Increased Autonomy
🤔 🤷♀️
💪 🧠
Decision Autonomy
Heroic Behavior
🦸
🦸
Heroic Behavior
Micro-management is costly,
and exhausting
Manager as rescuer
Employee as victim
“A team is not a group of
people who work together.
A team is a group who trust each other”
Simon Sinek
Consent not Consensus
“A shared belief held by members
of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking”
Amy Edmondson
55 million meetings take place in the USA everyday
Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 27
Managers spend, on average, 23 hours a week in meetings
Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 27
50% are deemed “unproductive”
Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 27
Transparency reduces meetings
Share
📢
No siloed information
Information reaches the right person at the right time
Without transparency it's impossible to make adjustments and experiment
Transparency on what people
are working on,
as a barometer for progress
Share
“Big Picture” Knowledge
🧠💡
Strategy
♟️
Start where you are,
not where you want to be
🏁
Distribute authority to the edges
🤹🏽♂️
The BEST solution
vs
Safe enough to try
🛟
Know your “waterline”
🚧
✔️
Remember
Freedom & Authority feed motivation
Remember
The more you trust, the more you get
Remember
Radical transparency empowers decision making
You get what you design for:
Be PEOPLE positive
😊😊
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