That&#x27;s &quot;manager&quot;-style micromanagement. There&#x27;s also &quot;lead&quot;-style micromanagement: someone who was in the trenches handling everything, and now is supposed to delegate and manage others, but doesn&#x27;t necessarily know <i>how</i>—their first instinct is still to do everything themselves, and when they don&#x27;t have enough time, to micromanage whoever is doing it so that the result will come out <i>the same as if</i> they did it themselves.<p>I wish there was a single book I could hand to these people, or a training course I could suggest for them, because they frequently know they have a problem &quot;letting go&quot; but don&#x27;t know what to do about it.<p>If such a book existed, I could imagine it becoming the standard &quot;gift&quot; a VC gives a founder the day they hire their first salaried employee. ;)