Confessions of a recovering micromanager
| look over smb’s shoulderстоять над душой fatigued [fə'tiːgd] усталый, утомлённый unimaginative лишённый воображения output ['autput] итог, результат scribble ['skrɪbl] писать быстро и небрежно margin ['mɑːʤɪn] поле (страницы) | Get out of my hair! Оставь меня в покое!
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upside позитивный аспект opp. downside
in bulk оптом
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1) There was a recent study in the UK. They took 100 hospital employees, put an
activity tracker on them and then let them go about their next 12-hour shift all
alone, just a regular 12-hour shift. At the end of the shift, they asked
them, "Do you feel fatigued?" And what they found was actually really
interesting. It wasn't necessarily the people who moved the most that felt the
most fatigued, but it was the folks that didn't have control over their jobs.
2) When start managing the people who manage the people doing the work, and it's at that point in time, you start to lose control over the output of your job.
3) I don't think many people celebrate failure, but failure, I posit, is actually pretty necessary for the folks truly in the long-term, for the smart and imaginative people truly trying to fulfill the mission that you give them at hand. And so failure can actually be seen as a milestone along that mission towards success.
4) I've actually learned the most fundamentally challenging lesson I've ever had to learn, and that's this. There is only one solution to micromanagement... and that's to trust.
------------- 1) How do you define micromanagement? 2) Have you ever been micromanaged/ micromanaged other people? 3) What is the downside of micromanagement? 4) What is the upside of not micromanaging?
Confessions of a recovering micromanager
| look over smb’s shoulderстоять над душой fatigued [fə'tiːgd] усталый, утомлённый unimaginative лишённый воображения output ['autput] итог, результат scribble ['skrɪbl] писать быстро и небрежно margin ['mɑːʤɪn] поле (страницы) | Get out of my hair! Оставь меня в покое!
startling ['stɑːtlɪŋ] поразительный,
upside позитивный аспект opp. downside
in bulk оптом
posit ['pɔzɪt] утверждать
rebate ['riːbeɪt] делать скидку; уменьшать
|
1) There was a recent study in the UK. They took 100 hospital employees, put an
activity tracker on them and then let them go about their next 12-hour shift all
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alone, just a regular 12-hour shift. At the end of the shift, they asked
them, "Do you feel fatigued?" And what they found was actually really
interesting. It wasn't necessarily the people who moved the most that felt the
most fatigued, but it was the folks that didn't have control over their jobs.
2) When start managing the people who manage the people doing the work, and it's at that point in time, you start to lose control over the output of your job.
3) I don't think many people celebrate failure, but failure, I posit, is actually pretty necessary for the folks truly in the long-term, for the smart and imaginative people truly trying to fulfill the mission that you give them at hand. And so failure can actually be seen as a milestone along that mission towards success.
4) I've actually learned the most fundamentally challenging lesson I've ever had to learn, and that's this. There is only one solution to micromanagement... and that's to trust.
------------- 1) How do you define micromanagement? 2) Have you ever been micromanaged/ micromanaged other people? 3) What is the downside of micromanagement? 4) What is the upside of not micromanaging?