Short excerpt from a YouTube video in which Mike Andes contrasts employees who require constant direction (described negatively as wanting micromanagement and lacking independent thinking) with "great" employees who only need clear outcomes and will determine how to accomplish tasks. The speaker warns that stepping in to give detailed instructions disempowers competent team members.
Really pathetic employees. They want micromanagement. Here's how you do it. And then do this, and then they do this and then this and this and this. And oh, by the way, you forgot that. Hey, do that. That's what they want. Because they don't have a brain to think with. Great employees, great team members, great partners. They just need marching orders like, get this done and they get it done. They don't need how to. How to call the customer, how to text them, where to go in the software. They will figure it out. But you just got to realize that, like, you jumping in is going to disempower them and take all gun power away from them.
