Comments on But that’s just me...: Micro-Managing, or Micro-Meddling??

Your reply to my comment met the “balloon joke” de...

2008-06-10T08:57:00.000-05:00

Your reply to my comment met the “balloon joke” definition for a manager (or a management consultant) http://www.ahajokes.com/bus161.html

None of your clients have the time to read the entire “Set Up to Fail” book.

The original magazine article is posted online at:
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/flatmm/files/98209_b2b.pdf
(A related article is on the author’s web site at:
http://www.set-up-to-fail.net/pdf/The%20downward%20spiral.pdf)

Good companies are destroyed the same way they are built – one career at a time.

Richard, strangely enough, I know the work from Ma...

2008-06-02T21:23:00.000-05:00

Richard, strangely enough, I know the work from Manzoni and Barsoux of which you speak... they also wrote a book, if memory serves. I met them a few years prior at INSEAD.

Simma, if we can get our arms around "micro-meddling," it becomes more insiduous than "micro-managing."

KB

great blog entry. I think that micro-meddling is a...

2008-05-28T19:10:00.000-05:00

great blog entry. I think that micro-meddling is an apt description. Managers at all levels need to become aware of how it negatively affects organizational performance.

Simma Lieberman

Micro-meddling of course, usually due to a breakdo...

2008-05-27T13:33:00.000-05:00

Micro-meddling of course, usually due to a breakdown in communications.

One of the most horrifying examples of this is the infamous “Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome”. Ten years ago Manzoni and Barsoux brilliantly described the script for it on pages 104 and 105 of the April-May 1998 issue of the Harvard Business Review. They used just eight frames of wonderful cartoons by Sidney Harris.