The Lost ARC / Unit 16 ARC 402 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Micromanager
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The idea
The first of the book's five composite collapse archetypes is the Micromanager, whose motto is "Everything goes through me": rewriting work and punishing initiative.
In practice
Constant update requests, drafts returned rewritten, and a team that has stopped deciding anything alone.
Where people slip
The book's mechanism: insecurity masked as thoroughness. Autonomy is crushed, and the best people, who have options, leave.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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