> Take a sports team. They are not micromanaged. They are given a common task, a common strategy, guidance, but in the field they are alone. They are more and

> Take a sports team. They are not micromanaged. They are given a common task, a common strategy, guidance, but in the field they are alone. They are more and more micromanaged. * Training has become the land of measuring and controlling each detail, and has expanded into controlling your whole life as much as possible. * Before the game, with more and more accurate and often static tactics. Don't you act another way or it means disobeying and the bench is near. * During the game. Hardly 15 seconds go by without the coach (or the coaches) yelling orders at 1 or 2 players. Now there are even real-time data collecting and analyses, sometimes from sensors. Perhaps the worst example of micro-management is cycling, where I am pretty sure that the only directeur sportif's dream not yet fulfilled is to be able to radio-command electrodes implanted in riders' muscles. They already get the position of almost everybody in the pack in almost real-time, they get radio-communicated real-time speed, power, heartbeat sensors measurements and two-way audio communication with each rider of the team. For now they have to do with giving imperative orders through each rider's earpiece (so the reaction can be delayed or the order not quite obeyed), otherwise managers would be computer game players. And silly (sometimes collective) punishments for those who dared disobey when they felt the orders were stupid are not uncommon: even though it means losing chances on that day or the next, the manager has one priority: showing who the boss is.