When you have someone in your organization, or externally who your organization is paying, specifically to do a task… It makes sense to let them do that task; if you insist on your involvement and time being spent on that same task, all you're doing is double handling and wasting your own time and the organization's money. And, yet, so many managers struggle with this simple concept, refusing to relinquish even the smallest, most important things to those who should be responsible for them, bogging down the entire operation with the bottleneck effect that is created by everything needing to pass across their desk.
You see this all the time, especially from entry-level managers who proved testament to the "Peter principle" and were never able to rise further through the ranks past their initial management position. Stuck, forever in that level of the organization, they begin clutching tighter at the few straws they have hold of, hoping that holding tighter and tighter may one day see their rise to that promotion that they so crave…
It also happens with small business owners who have found success that they attribute to their micromanagement, and as their organization grows, they find it impossible to relinquish any of the hold they have until a critical point is reached.
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