CEO Talk
"I want you to be blunt, critically blunt & not make any consideration for anyone's thinking, not even myself. I will ask for your opinion, & I'll ask for it often, and when I do; I expect you to tell me what -you- think, not what I'd like to hear"
Yumm!
He then continued...
"I expect you to be difficult to manage, & that's EXACTLY what I'm looking for in my team, people like you. Creative people do not submit to someone else's wishes, they have a mind of their own & are opinionated -very opinionated. Exactly what we need"
You've come to the right person, baby!
Can you even begin to imagine how that felt? It was muuuuuusic to my ears! Here's someone who constantly asks for my input, believes in it, & gives me enough room to execute - That's like someone giving you a pair of wings asks you fly in every direction as you please, with one condition: deliver upon your tasks.
Micromanagement was never the way to get me to do something, it's something I can't play well with. There's nothing worse than having someone constantly nit-pick your work, or 'crow' around your head holding you by the leash.
I hate it.
When I was little, I had serious trouble submitting to bossy teachers in school, those who wanted to have it their way with students with no explanation, & no rationale; the "You'll do this because I said so" type, if you know what I mean.
I hated that too.
Unless it's a call center that you're running, micromanagement probably isn't the greatest way to extract work out of your team, much too less win them over. I read somewhere that a good horse trainer can get a horse to do what he wants him to do - a great trainer can get a horse to want to do it. I hope it isn't much of a surprise to you to know that human capital functions very much like that too. Good managers make their subordinates do exactly what they want. Great managers -on the other hand- are able to make their teams want to do it.
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