In defense of micromanagement

Delegation is over-rated, micro-management is under-rated and misunderstood.

 Zuck talks about this
“probably one of my most controversial leadership or management things is I don’t actually believe in delegating that much. I kinda think like the way a founder should work is you should basically make as many decisions and get involved as in as many things as you can”


Every great founder in my experience  does the above - see Elon or Jensen Huang. 

They are in the details – every technical nuance, every financial model’s implications, every pixel. I rarely see a great company run in any other way.


The natural question that gets asked is: doesn’t this make every leader below them unhappy? I’ll answer this empirically: look at the core leadership team of any of these companies and you’ll see they have the same set of people for many, many years

灰烬重燃熊熊火，

阴影复苏熠熠光；

宝剑锋从断錾出，

无冕之人再称王。

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

a light from the shadows shall spring;

renewed shall be blade that was broken,

the crownless again shall be king.

Bart

@dgufi