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“”Micromanagement restricts the ability of micromanaged people to develop and grow, and it also limits what the micromanager’s team can achieve….[See the Key Points]“

” You’ve assigned an important task to a talented employee, and given him a deadline. Now, do you let him do his work and simply touch base with him at pre-defined points along the way - or do you keep dropping by his desk and sending e-mails to check his progress?If it’s the latter, you might be a micromanager. Or, if you’re the harried worker trying to make a deadline with a boss hovering at your shoulder, you might have a micromanager on your hands - someone who just can’t let go of tiny details.Micromanagers take perfectly positive attributes - an attention to detail and a hands-on attitude - to the extreme. Either because they’re control-obsessed, or because they feel driven to push everyone around them to success, micromanagers risk disempowering their colleagues. They ruin their colleagues’ confidence, hurt their performance, and frustrate them to the point where they quit. “

Read the rest of the entry: Micromanagement - Learn how to avoid it!

Tags: management, leadership, micromanagement, Mind Tools,

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Success Connections: Censor Your Critical Comments - This is a really article i stumbled across and i can relate to some of the things in it so much that i just couldn’t resist telling you about one of my many experiences that turned out to be a priceless one.

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Somewhere at the end of 2005, when EU went through a very critical decision of retaining the data of 450 million Europeans for 1 year or more, i reached to a very dear friend of mine and asked him to sign the petition against it - a petition that despite being signed by a huge number of people was still approved.

When my friend, i will call him M. said he can’t sign it and gave me his reasons, i suddenly became very furious and very critical to his job, to his choices.

It’s very easy to shift feelings as i did and disregard what i always believed in and ruled my simple life by: People are entitled to choices and in most cases we are in no position to blame, judge or throw critiques. We don’t have that right.

Back to the request….

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