Micromanagement critically comes from the next-person in the heirachy. It is rare to have a workplace like Apple, where the CEO was rumoured to involve himself

Micromanagement critically comes from the next-person in the heirachy. It is rare to have a workplace like Apple, where the CEO was rumoured to involve himself in every aspect of the company. Most workplaces' simply suffer from bad team leads, bad middle managers, bad shift managers, bad scrummasters, and the like. In fact, it may be that extreme team autonomy allows micromanagement to flourish since the top leaders don't know what's going within the teams, and do not try to stop poor team dynamics from occurring unless it affects performance in a visible way.