Tag Archives: Manager

Micro-manage or Mico-mentor?

In my experience, a micromanager micromanages for three main reasons. First, they were once the subject matter expert on the particular task they now are responsible for managing. The micomanager’s manager must mentor the necessary skills for strategy-management, so the alleged ‘micro’manger can mentor the people performing the tasks. If the ‘micro’manager is mentoring on [...]

Are you a Way Two thinker?

Way Two: There are days when the Way Two will tell you it’s like the lyrics to the Stealers Wheel hit from the 1970s: “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you.” Conventional wisdom says that an idea without action is a pipe dream. But [...]