[gregplaysguitar]

The author isn’t claiming that micromanaging is good - it’s not. But I wholeheartedly agree that it’s better than being absent. Good leaders create great things by caring about the small details and taking responsibility for them. It’s a fine line between that and micromanagement, but I guess one mark of a great leader is that they’re able to tread it

[vba616]

A type of traditional story about leaders is how they showed up anonymously to check what was going on. Literally going back thousands of years.

I was just reading a story about how a king pretended to be a wandering drunken lout, and when his guards stopped him, he bribed some of them with gold, but others whipped and beat him and put him in a cell. Then he revealed who he was, and the guards who didn't lock him up and beat him, were whipped and banished.

[ipaddr]

That's a visionary with control/esteem issues and an inability to communicate. Micromanaging is a lack of trust in yourself as a leader and your team's ability to deliver. Good/great leaders never micro manage because they trust the vision was communicated and received and seek feedback to confirm this. When I can't connect or trust my team I've failed at leadership.

Failing at team leadership doesn't mean you can't be a detailed product manager with a strong vision for a successful product. But you shouldn't be managing the team, those responsibilities need to go to someone focused on the team and not the vision