Micro Managers Cause Macro Problems

The Calling Card of a Micro Manager

Micro Managers. The scourge of the modern workplace. The calling card of a Micro Manager is their inability to get anything done. It belies the whole term of managing. The last thing a Micro Manager wants to do is manage.

They want all the work done by themselves. Every little detail has to be approved and monitored by the Micro Manager. And in many cases, they will shove previously done work by others aside to do it themsleves.

Hence they are always overworked, frazzled, grumpy, dissatisified, never happy, and constantly going over the same work, again, again, and again. Often oming back to the same spot that started the process.

They are always angry, suspicious that nothing is done right, and almost conspiratorial in their outlook regarding employees.

They DO find mistakes. But they can be the smallest of inconsistencies... but the Micro Manager is often the source of those mistakes.

And here's the kicker. A Micro Manager feels the only way to combat the details and workload (the chaos they created) is by doing even more Micro Managing.

It is a vicious cycle and it heads downward.

Thanks
Dafydd
mibw@yahoo.com

posted by The Fetish Lair @ 10:23 a.m.