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Micromanagement gets a bad rap, but could more involvement in the details be the key to successful leadership?

This week, Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin dive deep into the difference between detail-oriented micro leadership and overbearing micromanagement. Listen in as we uncover how a hands-on approach empowers leaders, enhances team alignment, and boosts organizational velocity.

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A disciplined management operating system that helps leaders remove obstacles for their teams while staying immersed in the details that matter. How the weaponization of micromanagement has caused many leaders to take a hands-off approach centered on delegation that’s detrimental to team building.Why detail matters for leaders and how micro leadership helps create psychological predictability for teams while maintaining healthy tension in the system.

In part two of our discussion on the challenges facing CEOs in 2024, Stephen and Taylor dive deeper into the mechanics of the return to office, the ins and outs of virtual collaboration, what to expect from the regulatory environment in an election year, and the importance of embracing generative AI.

Join us as we discuss:How CEOs can help teams balance the need for in-person socialization and collaboration while maintaining flexibility.Our predictions on how political change could affect M&A activity in the U.S. Why CEOs should stop fearing Generative AI and start preparing for how executive, legal, and people teams will put guardrails around its use.

”What you actually hear from CEOs is that they're more in Crisis Leadership planning mode than ever before.”

From the issues surrounding return-to-office policies and decreased headcounts to broader geopolitical challenges, Taylor Griffin, Chief Operating Officer at The Miles Group, joins us to talk about how CEOs can navigate the ambiguity of 2024.

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Leadership strategies for CEOs facing challenges to their company’s license to operate, including ESG, regulation, and more.Learning to plow 40 fields instead of 5: how a dynamic approach to prioritization can help CEOs drive efficiency.The importance of friction for CEOs and why being more involved in day-to-day challenges could actually open up capacity, as opposed to bogging you down.

Special guest Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify, joins TMG CEO Stephen Miles to discuss their successful coaching relationship and what an ideal high-performance coaching experience can achieve. For executives and founders who may have never considered executive coaching or are unsure of what a coaching relationship looks like day-to-day, Stephen and Harley illustrate what the very best executive coaching relationship can provide.

Employees and teams are experiencing burnout across all levels of the organization. Burnout challenges not only workforce engagement, but quality, productivity, and problem-solving abilities. Courtney Hamilton and Christina Woodard discuss the causes of burnout and the strategies to combat it in order to reconnect teams to their company, culture, and meaningful work.

Every time there’s a threat against a company, there is almost always a weak signal or a whiff of smoke that can serve as an early warning of the risk to the organization. If that threat is dismissed or ignored, the whiff of smoke can turn into a forest fire. Then the organization faces a much bigger problem, with fewer options to solve it. CEO Stephen Miles and Managing Director John Nasr discuss the importance of embedding weak signal detection in the company culture.