If there is one thing, I have learned from being in retail for almost 20 years, it would be that I have had to deal with more than one micromanager. Micromanagers are without a doubt perhaps the most ANNOYING form of managers in any jobs. Just the fact that they have to act the way they do is hard enough and what’s more is that they don’t care or tend to forget that neurodivergent individuals work under them.
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In any job, you are bound to be under the supervision of a micromanager and sometimes the best thing you can do is keep your head down and do your job. What’s more is that micromanagers don’t have your best interests at heart because they are caught up in their own little world.
Unfortunately, what a lot of these micromanagers fail to understand or realize is that when you micromanage, you lose great talent. I mean, you could have someone who is really good at what they do, but the micromanager is hindering their ability to do the job that they are good at. You could have someone who is neurodivergent and really good at their job as an office worker or a janitor. They have a system that makes them thrive, but the micromanager doesn’t seem to care or listen to what goes on in the employee’s ability.
As a result, the micromanaging gets to a point where the employee quits and takes their talents elsewhere.
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Now, maybe there might be a good reason for someone to be a micromanager such as maybe the business isn’t doing too well or that they are dealing with something in their personal lives and try to mask those feelings by micromanaging. In fact, the owner of the country club my dad is a member of is a micromanager on account that his wife is dealing with a really bad muscular illness and he takes all his emotions out on his staff.
It’s also because that the micromanager has other problems and has no one to take those problems to. Take for example the scene in “Mary Poppins” (1964) where Jane and Michael run into Bert after causing the bank run. In this scene, Bert reveals that their father has no one looking after him and he can only throw himself into his job. That is to say that George Banks isn’t a micromanager, but it still gets the point across.
In the sequel, the same thing happens to Michael Banks, but that is on account that his house is on the line for repossession and that his wife had just passed away.
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Still, however, it doesn’t make the situation any easier for anyone who is working under a micromanager. It’s also important to remember that micromanagers DO NOT make businesses successful, but only weakens them. It’s like beating a dead horse…you want the horse to go, but it dies from exhaustion.
Now, don’t get me wrong on account that some micromanagers have very high standards and want those standards kept up at all times. But nothing is perfect in life, even in business.
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The truth of the matter is that there are better ways to make something successful that does not involve micromanaging. If you micromanage, people turn their backs on you and detest you for who you are. If you micromanage, you please no one, not even the people above you.
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Catch you all later!!
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