Are you micromanaging yourself out of a job?

Three questions to ask before your team packs up and you get packaged out.

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BY Samantha Wasserman

There is a particular kind of leadership failure that occurs when a leader transitions into a new high stakes role. It’s tricky at first, because it doesn’t look like failure. No one is being fired. The leader feels productive, even indispensable. But below the surface, something has quietly broken. Talented people are no longer making decisions on their own. The team, once confident and self-directed, has learned to wait. An escalation culture is forming, and it is more common, and more costly, than most organizations acknowledge.

The damage accumulates in layers. Disengaged employees cost the........

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