Vincent Malizia stopped micromanaging by giving employees a clear rule: they can make any decision under $50,000 without asking. He hires people to decide, not follow orders, and accepts mistakes as part of letting them do their jobs.
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I was always doing everything myself, right? So when I hired my first employee, I would ask, I would say, can you please do this for me? And they would be like, well, I work for you, of course I'm going to do it. You don't have to ask me, just tell me what you want me to do. But I felt funny asking somebody to do something for me. It took me some time, but it was giving people the power to make the decisions, not micromanaging what I told my employees were I, especially the new hires. I would tell them, I'd say, I'm hiring you to do this job. I'm not going to micromanage you. If you have questions, I want to do whatever I can to help you succeed. You know, we'll have our check ins and our trainings. But I said, at the end of the day, I'm hiring you to make this decision. So that's really how we empowered them to make decisions. And along the way there were some mistakes, but we would always tell them, if you're not going to cost the company 50,000, make the decision. And if it's the wrong one, we'll learn from it.
