Sidestepping Micromanagement: How to Follow Up Without Being a Pest

Published: Tue, 12/23/14

"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."
Tom Peters, American business writer.
If you've attained a management position, then you've certainly learned that you must delegate some or most of your work, to avoid being overwhelmed by your responsibilities. No single manager can do everything he or she is ultimately responsible for. Having responsibility for something doesn’t mean it’s your job per se—you just need to make sure it’s done. 

Take Merck's Roger Perlmutter. He’s in charge of the R&D Division that manufactures new drugs. He doesn’t invent the drugs. But he makes sure they are invented by people who focus on nothing else. His job is to cut out the fat that slows their production. When he took his position in 2012, he dismissed a surprising number of micromanaging bureaucrats who were slowing the R&D process by their insistence that the researchers go through the chain of command for permission to do every little thing. 
Sidestepping Micromanagement:  How to Follow Up Without Being a Pest
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