The founder of Your CEO Mentor observes: Micromanagers often have a subconscious drive to be perennially busy so they don’t have time to do the hard work of leadership.
I once worked for a man who was incredibly intelligent, had an insatiable appetite for complexity, and an unimpeachable set of values. The only problem was that he loved details. He would often ask me questions that I couldn’t answer—not because I wasn’t good at my job, but because his questions were about details that only the people working two or three steps below me could know the answers.
