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dumbness of his staff while silencing them with his work style. Or her
work style, of course.

You might think you have to be a raging psychopath to be a micromanager,
but you don’t. The chances are that you’re just hanging on to a way of
doing things that you liked when you were the one doing it and are
resisting the idea that those times and ways have gone, probably for ever.
The problem, indeed the likelihood, is that in the process you may be
discouraging any development from the major asset that is your own team.
It can be hard to overcome pride and admit that someone else has come up
with a better way of doing things but if you don’t bite that bullet then the
business is unlikely to move on.

HERE’S AN IDEA FOR YOU…
Get your staff together and throw out a problem as a question without
offering a solution. Keep quiet. If there is a free and easy discussion,
good. If nobody has ideas, dares proffer them or you don’t want to
hear them, then you may be micromanaging and strangling your
business.