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Alli Peck confronted her micromanaging boss by matching his direct style and asking why he did it. She offered to build a system together, and he agreed to change. Would you do the same?
Alli Peck confronted her micromanaging boss by matching his direct style and asking why he did it. She offered to build a system together, and he agreed to change. Would you do the same?
I confronted a micromanager once. I'm not kidding. I straight up told him, hey, you're being kind of a micromanager. What's that about? Now, yes, I agree that that's a little aggressive for an approach, but this guy was a total straight shooter, didn't beat around the bush. So I was just matching his energy. He was actually surprised at my comment. He was like, I am. How so? And I had evidence. And I was like, you're doing this, this and this. Is there a reason? Is there something I can do differently that would make you think that I had everything under control? And he was so taken aback. He was like, yeah, let me think about that and let's come up with a system together. I don' to be a micromanager. And that was that. Do you have a micromanager? And would you ever try this.
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