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Get Involved without Being a Micromanager: 3 Tips
Are you a micromanager or just attentive to details? How can you get involved without being seen as a micromanager? Determining how involved to be in the day-to-day is one of those eternal management questions.  
Steve Jobs has been widely lauded for sweating the details (as when he called a vice president of Google on a Sunday morning phone call to note the shade of yellow in the Google logo did not render properly on the iPhone.)  But other senior executives have been blasted for meddling in the minutiae, ordering up last minute product or service changes that succeeded at nothing but just making them feel powerful.
 
So when does attention to detail become counterproductive, even destructive? The answer inevitably circles back to motivation. Many execs want to feel that they are making a difference. The word “feel” is important. Senior executives typically work strategically, making decisions that will not come to fruition for months or even years. And some of them miss the satisfaction that comes from accomplishing one’s tasks at the end of each day or each week. They miss the feeling of accomplishment that comes from getting things done.This lack of feeling prompts some to get involved in areas technically below their pay grade.
Can pointing out a problem with a color in a logo or the wording in a document be helpful? Certainly. But if you do want to speak up, here are some guidelines.
Focus on your expertise. For example, Jobs is a gifted self-taught designer; he is attuned to color and knows of what he speaks. But when a finance executive at an automaker starts commenting on fit and finish in a vehicle, he or she is likely out of their depth. Part of knowing your expertise means knowing your limitations. In such instances, it is better to defer to “the experts on ground,” that is, those responsible for doing the work — designers, engineers, financial analysts, and the like.
Keep your hand in it. One senior leader I worked with struggled for a time with letting go of his pet projects. He is a gifted manager and had no problem delegating, save for one area: negotiation. He was a talented negotiator and had made a name for himself. His compromise was to delegate all but the biggest negotiations, saving some of the detail work for himself and where it was appropriate for his intervention.
Find your juice. Feeling a sense of accomplishment as a senior leader is a matter of mobilizing the team to action and achieving intended results. Day to day this can be a slog, especially when projects hit roadblocks or resources become scarce. Also, people issues can complicate productivity. So this is where the leader rises to the fore. By focusing the team and its management on the results the leader applies attention appropriately. And when the team succeeds there is a great deal of satisfaction.
Knowing when to intervene and when to hold back is tough, but consider this: Constantly meddling thwarts others’ development. If you parachute in to solve the crisis, you prevent those on the ground from figuring things out for themselves. Better to let those closest to the problem find the fix, and in the process, learn not simply how to problem solve but how to avoid problems.
Teaching by example, that is, showing others what to look for and how to respond, may be the leader’s most lasting legacy.

Article By John Baldoni 
 
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 West

Anilesh Yadav, IIM Ahmedabad
Nehul Malhotra, IIM Ahmedabad
Rachit Agrawal, NMIMS, Mumbai
Anmol Arora, IIM Ahmedabad
Sandip Shinde, Dr.Moonjee Institute of Management Studies, Nashik
Kunal Khilar, IIM Ahmedabad
Nikhil Dilip Ghare, Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
Anadi Mitra, IIM Ahmedabad
Rushi Thakar, IIM Ahmedabad
Meeth Gill, Goa Institute Of Management
Ankur Prabhakar, Balaji institute of Telecom Management, Pune
NIKITA SOMANI, Balaji institute of Telecom Management, Pune
Rahul Shanbhogue, Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
Rahul Ranjan , IIM Ahmedabad
Ashish Gautam, Balaji Institute Of Modern Management, Pune
Sharad Jain, Balaji institute of Telecom Management, Pune
Atulya Ojha, IIM Ahmedabad
Tuton Naik, IIM Ahmedabad
Nikhil Khemani, Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
H. Abhinav Gokari, IIM Ahmedabad
Mohit Garg, IIM Ahmedabad
Raju Kumar, Goa Institute Of Management
Ankita Gupta, IIT Gandhinagar
Sharada Amulya Tadimeti, Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
 
East
S.Sandhya, IIM Shillong
Dhivya Ravikumar, IIM Shillong
Shubham Agarwal, IIM Shillong
Subhankar Padhi, IIM Shillong
Garima Dhiman, Xavier Institute of Management, Orissa
Sudipta Das, Xavier Institute of Management, Orissa
Mritunjay Choudhary, IIM Shillong
Debashish Rout, Xavier Institute of Management, Orissa
Jayant Kejriwal, IIM Shillong
Anil Kumar Jagirdar, IIM Shillong
Ankush Saraff, IIM Shillong
Kaushalendra Sharan Jngabahdur, Xavier Institute of Management, Orissa
Swati Agrawal, Xavier Institute of Management, Orissa
debanjoli Sinha, IIM Shillong
Vikas Goyal, Xavier Institute of Management, Orissa
Umang Kulshrestha, IIM Shillong
Binayak Acharya, Xavier Institute of Management, Orissa
Hitesh R. Agarwal, Xavier Institute of Management, Orissa
  
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Shruti Sood, University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Yashu Kapoor, Echelon Institute Of Technology, Faridabad, Haryana
Abhishek Gupta, Echelon Institute Of Technology,Faridabad, Haryana
Akash Tyagi, Echelon Institute Of Technology, Faridabad, Haryana
Pushkar Kathuria, Echelon Institute Of Technology, Faridabad, Haryana
Shahnaz Chaudhary, Army Institute Of Management And Technology, Uttar Pradesh
Rohit Singh, Meerut Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Uttar Pradesh
Shubham Dang, Meerut Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Uttar Pradesh
Anusha Padi, Army Institute Of Management And Technology, Uttar Pradesh
Harmeet Kaur, Army Institute Of Management And Technology, Uttar Pradesh
Padmakar Ojha, Echelon Institute Of Technology, Faridabad, Haryana
Kailash .D. Agarwal, Echelon Institute Of Technology, Faridabad, Haryana
Sandeep Kaur , Army Institute Of Management And Technology, Uttar Pradesh
Pradeep Paul, Echelon Institute Of Technology, Faridabad, Haryana
Ruchi Jain, Echelon Institute Of Technology, Faridabad, Haryana
Akinchan Saxena, Meerut Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Uttar Pradesh
Baneet Singh, Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute Of Technology, New Delhi
Karishma Dhingra, Echelon Institute Of Technology, Faridabad, Haryana
Nikita Garg, Echelon Institute Of Technology, Faridabad, Haryana
Asim Ashirbad Mishra, Army Institute Of Management And Technology,Uttar Pradesh
 
South 
Sai Prasad Viswanathan, IIM Banaglore
Rishi Milind Patil, IIM Banaglore
Unnikrishnan Nair, T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Saurav Khurana, IIM Banaglore
Daksha Ballal , St.Josephs College Of Business Administration, Bangalore
Neel Jadhav, T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Kaza SreeRam Prasad, T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Sukanya Bose, T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Gurkirat Singh, IIM Banaglore
Rohan Dayal, IIM Banaglore
Paminderjit Sunner, T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Viral Shah, IIT Madras- MBA, Chennai
Namrata Keshwala, IIM Banaglore
Anant Sethi, T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Narla Ramkumar, Gitam University, Hyderabad
Bhavya Sindhu M., IIM Banaglore
Sangeetha Kesav, IIM Banaglore
Venkatesh S, IIM Banaglore
H.Prasad Nayak, T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Varun Thamba, Loyola Institute of Business Administration
Anant Srivastava, T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
R.Sai Prasad Reddy , Gitam Hyderabad Business School, Hyderabad 
S.Krishna Chaitanya , Gitam Hyderabad Business School, Hyderabad 
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