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stifled creativity, innovation and agility.a lack of new leaders coming up through the ranks.

employees are afraid to share their opinions.

constant project bottlenecks due to excessive meetings, gatekeeping and stakeholders.

every decision must be approved by the manager.

every conversation with the boss feels like a performance review.

acceptance of less-than-best work to pander to leadership.

boss-obsessed rather than customer-obsessed.

Signs of micromanaging in teams and organizations: Nobody feels like they are doing their best work. Everyone secretly knows they are delivering an inferior product or service. Every decision must go through them, bottlenecking progress at each turn. The most important aspects of a project - the ones everyone is worried about - become the idiosyncratic (but irrelevant to success) specifications of the micromanaging boss.

The only thing that matters is what the boss thinks. Here's a one-question test to identify a micromanager: Is the team customer-obsessed or boss-obsessed?Ī boss-obsessed team is easy to identify. They want to be engaged, involved, deep in the weeds. Other managers seem to take pride in being a micromanager. Some leaders try to avoid being a micromanager at all costs - taking a hands-off approach and letting their employees sink or swim on their own. The micromanager has become a bit of a boogeyman in the business world. Remote workers and matrixed teams still experience micromanagement.Micromanaged teams can look happy but perform poorly.You can identify a micromanager with one simple question.