[gregmac]

> Your best hope is once in a while to find a "good" boss who is not 100% on board with the investors and is willing to split the difference.

Investors care about results; they don't care about the style middle management uses. This is a false dichotomy.

If the company is focused on short-term wins to the detriment of long-term viability, that's a separate issue (and really has nothing to do with management style).

> ..then my excellent boss leaves for greener pastures, and suddenly a new much worse boss comes in and begins micromanaging...

> ..then the boss is who needs to be questioned

If this means results suffer (probably), then it's pretty obvious the cause in this case, right?