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Harry Chambers:
Management by hovering and hounding, and they become a second skin of their employees.

Harry Chambers, author of the book, My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide, says there’s an amazing number of micromanagers.

Seventy-nine percent of people perceive that they are either currently being micromanaged, or they have been micromanaged in the past.

Sixty-nine percent of these people stated that they had considered changing jobs because of being micromanaged. So, that’s two out of three people.

Thirty-six percent of people, or one out of three, actually has changed jobs because of being micromanaged.

Interestingly, says Harry, the vast majority of managers don’t see themselves as micromanagers. So, where did all these micromanagers come from, anyway?

Most micromanagers are created by a lack of training and development. One of the real realities of our workplace is that most managers and leaders are not trained to do that job.

We typically promote someone because they are technically proficient, and, then, we ask them to get the job done with, and through, others. And those are skills we don’t teach. And, in that lack of training, most people untrained in management or leadership will default to excessive control.

They don’t know any other way to do it.

Tomorrow, effective ways to deal with a micromanager, I’m Mike Carruthers, and that’s Something You Should Know.