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Are you a Micromanager?

Are You a Micromanager? by Joe Wynne

Micromanagement, for our purposes, is the use of your hierarchical power to closely control the actions of others, without their approval. It comes in many flavors and you may not even realize that you are doing it, but that doesn’t matter. It still happens. Just think about these example behaviors. Do they remind you of things you do?

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  You must approve specific details of a team’s plan before they are to work
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  After inadequate performance by another worker, you take over the task to "push it through"
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  You put together plans that others will use with little input from them
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  You involve yourself in virtually every decision of project teams
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  You constantly tell your team leads what to do next (but you do it nicely)
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  You tightly control expenditures, allowing very small amounts to be spent without your approval
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  You dominate discussions in meetings and share your opinions before most others
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  You assume problems are due to ineptitude rather than other factors
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  You assume that your assistance will be the best intervention to get the desired results overall
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  You fear the worst if you are not aware of what is going on in all areas of your project

http://www.gantthead.com/newsletterArchive/newsletterArchiveView.cfm?newsletterTypeID=7&ID=8385, Rertieved May 22, 2009.