Do Less: Why Managers Should Stop Micromanaging and Trust Their Employees [Archive.org URL]

In looking at the great leaders of history many people probably assume that they must have taken a particularly active role in running their organizations. But J. Keith Murnighan, a professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, says that is not the best way to manage an organization. Murnighan contends that the most successful leaders delegate virtually all the regular work to their staff, freeing their own time so that they can facilitate and orchestrate everyone else’s performance. Not only will that improve morale, he says, but it will also result in a better product and a less stressful life for the leader.

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