[meowfly]

If someone doesn't "trust" their team, I think they should also look inward at their own expectations. I've definitely seen micromanagers who should be able to trust their team but due to their own sense of pride/narcissism/whatever you want to call it, they believe they need to get personally involved.

This is a recurring joke in design, where a CEO hires a designer only to throw away all their feedback and build something hideous.

[j4yav]

Strongly agree here. Micromanaging is a sign of a manager in over their head more than an environmental problem. It manifests as a lack of trust, but you don’t really fix the underlying cause by addressing only the lack of trust.