[harryf]

There’s a joke I make with colleagues for a fantasy startup we’d call Micromanagr. The pitch “The problem with micromanagement is it doesn’t scale... until now”

Jokes aside micro-management has its roots in insecurity and lack of being able trust. Perhaps for a small number it’s also about a power trip but for most it’s simply a lack of understanding of how to delegate and a false belief that you’re the only person that “gets it”.

That said one of the greatest feelings a manager is seeing people step up, take things on and do it in a newer and better way. You have to allow them to make mistakes which they will at first. But when you can get to this with a whole team, you end up doing things collectively which are truly bigger than the sum of the parts, and that’s an amazing thing to be part of.

[quickthrower2]

This startup exists many times. All those team time tracking and work optimising apps.