by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Micro-Management has been given a bad name. What is bad is nit-picking management. Used properly, micro-management is a good practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n Micro-management is a good management practice. There, now fight the urge to stop reading while I explain.<\/p>\n Here is what micro-management<\/em> is about: A senior manager bores down through several levels of bureaucracy to a key element of a project. The senior manager pays close attention to the key element to help the project succeed.<\/p>\n Some may protest now. That is not micro-management. Yes, it is. It was invented to do that to help projects succeed.<\/p>\n What most of us know and have experienced is nit-picking<\/em> management.<\/p>\n Nits are the eggs of lice. Nits are really small. The literal practice of picking nits is when someone, I guess they are using a magnifying glass and a tiny pair of tweezers, picks the eggs of lice out of your scalp. That takes a lot of time, prevents you from doing anything useful, and is generally painful for you and frustrating for the nit picker.<\/p>\n Now that we have covered actual nit picking, we can all imagine what nit-picking management is. We don\u2019t want it.<\/p>\n Micro-management, however, can be quite helpful when practiced correctly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Micro-Management has been given a bad name. What is bad is nit-picking management. Used properly, micro-management is a good practice. Micro-management is a good management practice. There, now fight the urge to stop reading while I explain. Here is what micro-management is about: A senior manager bores down through several levels of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}