When Your Boss Is a Micromanager

Is There Hope For Ending Micromanagement and Building Trust?

The bad news is, you can’t fix micromanagers, because you’re not the problem. So what’s the good news?

This article is one of a series about how to build a relationship with your manager that gets you what you want on the job when you want it.

The content is based on Help Your Boss Help You by Ken Kousen, published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf. Hint: read to the end of the article for a promo code.

Micromanager. A micromanager wants to do your job as well as theirs.

The Formerly Technical Micromanager

Peter Principle. People in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence.

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When a technical person is good at their job they are often promoted into a totally different job. Colloquially, we call this phenomenon the Peter Principle.

The promotee eventually reaches a level where they are no longer productive because the nature of the new job is so…