What is the danger of micromanagement

Micromanagement - reef not only for entrepreneurs, but also for all who seek a balance between work and personal life. After all, if you can not stop thinking about the little things, you limit your ability to develop and to think creatively.

Many successful entrepreneurs often called lunatics on control. And it is quite clear, after establishing his business, or create something new, you need a lot of perseverance and energy.

The behavior of these entrepreneurs in many ways similar to the behavior of parents who are willing to do anything to protect her child. Here are just a business, it often leads to failure.

In order to grow, develop, and it does not suffocate from micromanagement, the owner needs to learn to trust their employees and not try to control all the small tasks. The main thing to remember about the big goals that he wants to achieve. But it is not so easy.

In this situation it is possible to draw parallels with the behavior of novice motorists who are driving fast motion and intermittent. Only by learning to notice the car's sensitivity to his actions, he will be able to relax and ride at a higher speed.

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And in business. If you do not trust completely your own system, you will pay too much attention to detail. As a result, you will constantly feel the pressure. You may even think that you are losing control.

To avoid this, it is advised to appoint to key positions of competent employees that you trust, and they transfer responsibility for certain tasks.

To retain the ability to develop and to think creatively, you have to arrange all the necessary items in their individual system of balance of work and personal life, as well as rules that will help you stay the course.

If you try to keep in mind more than a dozen tasks at once, you will not be able to objectively assess the relationship between them. You will get hung up on little things and not be able to focus on important issues.

So do not try to keep everything in your head.

• Keep a record of all the plans and objectives of both professional and personal spheres.
• Think about it, highlight the most important and get rid of excess.
• Set yourself a reminder.
• Arrange the "cleansing" of their to-do lists and projects each week. This frees your mind from the unnecessary information.

For more information on this system (Getting Things Done) Described in the book by David Allen's "How affairs in order: the art of stress-free productivity».

The only way you will begin to really think about things, and not just to think about them.