How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team – Part 3
When I joined a new company, I was introduced to the senior manager of the department during the first few days of the onboarding process. One of the things I learned from him was: “Once you’ve learned how I like to work, then you’ll settle in well.”
What he was saying was: “This is how I like to work and how I like to do things. Learn to be like me, and you’ll fit in well.”
I was an idiot
It's not my hat he chewed. "I’m sorry officer, I was an idiot and I’ll not do that again."It was a nice sunny afternoon and I was motoring along a three-lane highway with my daughter. We were driving to meet the rest of our family and my daughter had just described a situation she faced recently when the driver of a taxi she was traveling in was driving rather fast.