Quotes About Micromanagement

I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. 'Air I Breathe' is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don't have answers for it.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees. Employees need to ask permission before they can do anything. They need to get approval for every tiny expenditure.

you can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager.

computers have given top management the power to micromanage their organization, and top management has shown little or no ability to resist using this power. You can regularly read in the papers some big corporation is decentralizing, but when you follow it for several years you see they merely intended to do so, but did not.

why are you so sure that your micromanagement of every moment in this whole world is so essential

The more frequently you intrude, implicitly reminding them it is your change, the less they will believe it is theirs. Successful implementation, in short, depends upon them. The leader cannot hold individuals accountable for driving change if he refuses to let go of the steering wheel. He must trust his subordinates, replace them if necessary. But he mustn't micromanage them.

What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life.

Whereas most other tycoons hired subordinates to oversee personal expenditures, Rockefeller supervised every detail

I'm a massive control freak.

I'm too much of a control freak.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

I'm an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that.

It's not that I'm a control freak - but I am. I want to make sure everything is perfect.

I would say the difference between 'old Mark' and post-stroke Mark ... is that pre-stroke Mark was a major micromanager. I just don't have the time or inclination to micromanage as much as I used to.

I'm obsessive, I'm a control freak, I get snappy with people.

Psychological safety slips away so easily, like when the leader micromanages, can't say 'I don't know,' or acts like a know-it-all, pompous jackass. And it's not just leaders, it's also how one's peers behave.

Psychological safety slips away so easily, like when the leader micromanages, can't say 'I don't know,' or acts like a know-it-all,

In general, looking forward is great management; looking backward is micromanagement.

Sometimes it's nice to be in the hands of a control freak.

None of us should wait to be told what to do, or how to do it. Micromanagement kills initiative, judgment and creativity.

It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

4. Micromanagement/Worrying/Obsessing/Looping/Over-Futurizing. I will not repetitively examine details over and over. I will not jump to negative conclusions. I will not endlessly second-guess myself. I cannot change the past. I forgive all my past mistakes. I cannot make the future perfectly safe. I will stop hunting for what could go wrong. I will not try to control the uncontrollable. I will not micromanage myself or others.