Adding to: "When talented and skilled employees are basically made to do nothing (and even reprimanded when they do try to go out of the way to do even one tiny thing that’s meaningful), it’s a denial to engage in action, to exercise their powers, and have effects on the world!"
- Or even made to do something with instructions given to the last detail - taking away the agency and the creativity - no wonder micromanagement leads to so much distress taking shapes and forms of depression, anxiety and burnouts.
Thanks for sharing the insight from the book. This convinces me to pick up the book as well!
Adding to: "When talented and skilled employees are basically made to do nothing (and even reprimanded when they do try to go out of the way to do even one tiny thing that’s meaningful), it’s a denial to engage in action, to exercise their powers, and have effects on the world!"
- Or even made to do something with instructions given to the last detail - taking away the agency and the creativity - no wonder micromanagement leads to so much distress taking shapes and forms of depression, anxiety and burnouts.
Thanks for sharing the insight from the book. This convinces me to pick up the book as well!
I do agree with every detail written, still navigating ways to leave my bullshit job & I'm already close to it!
Thanks for the candid response and good luck with the endeavour!