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ManagementSpeak, 3/1/2010
By Bob Lewis | March 1, 2010
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ManagementSpeak: Once you’ve identified the members of your team who are critical to achieving your department’s business goals, aim to spend roughly 80 percent of your time with the top 20 percent of your staff.
Translation: Micromanage the best, ignore the rest.
This week’s anonymous contributor couldn’t ignore this instruction from his company’s internal management newsletter.
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