A complementary phrasing is to apply the subsidiarity principle ("the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only thos

A complementary phrasing is to apply the subsidiarity principle ("the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level" – OED) to companies, which would be the antithesis of micro-management. When your boss is an enabler first and a decision maker second, they are already following a variation of that principle. I wish there was a standard way to work against the institutionalized trust issues that creep up in larger companies. E.g. when managers can only take actions if they can show an issue exists using their (arbitrary) metrics, and not when their reports directly tell them about it.