What are the dangers of micromanagement

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Micromanagement is a pitfall not only for entrepreneurs, but also for anyone striving for work-life balance. After all, if you can't stop thinking about small things, you limit your ability to develop and think creatively.

Many successful entrepreneurs are often described as control freaks. And this is quite understandable, because in order to start your own business or create something new, you need a lot of perseverance and energy.

The behavior of these entrepreneurs is in many ways similar to the behavior of parents who are ready to go to any lengths to protect their child. But in business, this often leads to failure.

In order to grow, develop, and at the same time not suffocate from micromanagement, an entrepreneur needs to learn to trust his employees and not try to control all small tasks. The main thing is to remember the big goals that he wants to achieve. But it’s not that easy.

In this situation, parallels can be drawn with the behavior of a novice motorist, whose movements behind the wheel are fast and intermittent. Only by learning to notice the car's sensitivity to its actions will it be able to relax and drive at a higher speed.

So it is in entrepreneurship. If you don't trust your own system entirely, you will pay too much attention to detail. As a result, you will constantly feel pressure. You may even feel like you are losing control.

To avoid this, it is advised to appoint competent people you trust to key positions and transfer responsibility for certain tasks to them.

To maintain the ability to grow and think creatively, you must organize all the necessary points in your individual work-life balance system, as well as rules that will help you stay on course.

If you try to keep more than ten tasks in mind at the same time, you will not be able to objectively assess the connections between them. You will become obsessed with small things and will not be able to focus on important issues.

So don't try to keep everything in your head all the time.

• Write down all plans and tasks, both professional and personal.
• Think about them, highlight the main thing and get rid of unnecessary things.
• Set yourself reminders.
• Do a cleanup of your to-do and project lists every week. This will free your brain from unnecessary information.

For more information on this system (Getting Things Done), see David Allen's book "".

This is the only way you start to really think about things, and not just think about them.