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This article isn't about micromanagement in any sense. It's about management having the competency to perform and verify low level data analysis and come to ag
by mceachen 14y ago
This article isn't about micromanagement in any sense.
It's about management having the competency to perform and verify low level data analysis and come to agree or disagree with what they are being told.
I've worked with managers in the past who told their direct reports that they needed to do "selective analysis" (in other words, cook the books), because "people didn't want to hear bad news." Although this was egregiously disingenuous, I think the desire to put spin on bad news is innate.
It's up to management to smell if something's amiss, and to make sure that being honest and forthright is a requirement to maintain employment.
- jackbravo 14y agoI agree. It's funny how people hear what they want to hear.
- _pferreir_ 14y agoI agree. The title is misleading.
- nhebb 14y agoWhat he describes sounds like just plain management, not micromanagement. Micromanagement isn't productive involvement. It's over-bearing, time-consuming, counterproductive involvement.
- linker3000 14y agoCame here to say exactly this. The examples given were pretty much describing effective management - trusting lower-level staff to manage the day-to-day work but then stepping in to guide and advise when observations indicate that intervention is necessary.