<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5438" alt="Smartblog Logo" src="http://leadchangegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Screen-Shot-2011-09-06-at-1.56.00-PM.png" width="232" height="96" />“When we don’t give our people the space and freedom to take calculated risks, learn, apply, and iterate, we are risk our future.  While there is a risk to improvising and spontaneity, there is a greater, more insidious risk to control.” When I wrote a version of this in a <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/11/control-is-for-beginners/">recent Harvard Business Review post</a>, it prompted a <a href="http://switchandshift.com/control-is-for-beginners">great deal of discussion</a>.</p>
<p>Read more <a href="http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2014/02/20/the-efficient-ineffectiveness-of-control/">here...</a></p>
