Loyal employees get most satisfaction from a job well done. All they really need is opportunity to excell and being appreciated. Agree?


"Jeff, you are a new manager here. Let me tell you how to be successful here. The moment you do not look, your people will goof off. You have to keep an eye on them, always, and stay on top - at all times. Check everything, do not trust any of them."

Jeff inherited a highly dispirited group of software developers who grew accustomed to micromanagement. They got used to "if you need your opinion, I will give it to you" type of management.

So it came as a shock, when Jeff started to ask their opinions on how to improve things, and even more surprising, when he implemented those suggestions.

Results were surprisingly positive.

Jeff then got called in into a meeting with his boss.

"Jeff, we do not pay employees to be happy, we pay them to do work. To be effective, you have to closely monitor their activities. I hear that you even allowed them not to produce daily status reports. I have complaints from other departments that their people do not want to do those status reports anymore either. You are destroying agile !"

Agile, my foot !

Many managers got that wrong !

Agile is not about micromanagement. It is about empowerment.

Micromanagement sucks motivation, creativity and energy out of people.

Micromanagers see people as resources.

Stop seeing people as workers, start seeing workers as people.

Do you agree ?

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AmarImachZenith@gmx.com

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