Hands on leadership Like great coaching, great leadership is
hands on.(Photo iStock) Like great coaching, great leadership is
hands on.(Photo iStock) FEATURED IN LEADERSHIP To paraphrase
convicted felon Martha Stewart, micromanaging is a bad thing.
The dictionary confirms that. Micromanage (noun, origin:
1985-1990) means to direct or control in a detailed, often
meddlesome manner. That doesn’t sound nice--or empowering. And
empowering is a good thing. Just ask all the leadership gurus
and the ubiquitous self-help movement. I don’t want to be a
spoil sport here, but maybe the pendulum has swung too far in
the opposite direction of micromanaging. The German philosopher,
Arthur Schopenhauer, who’s been dead a long time, wasn’t very
good looking or a star athlete--and still has his own Wikipedia
page--thought that happened a lot: ″Opinion is like a pendulum
and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on
one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is
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