But micromanagment is also not good. Just because boiling hot showers burn your skin off doesn't mean you have to shower ice cold all the time.
> action could be seen as micromanagement
Micromanagement is a certain way of doing action — the typical micromanager is someone who wants to control all the details of everything, all the time.
Granted sometimes it is beneficial for a manager to go through something with their subordinates in all the detail, so the subordinates gain some implicit understanding how you would approach the thing on a detailed level. But this should be a one off, not something you do all the time.
Also: every act could be misunderstood as something else, that is in itself the reality of working in a team.
The best teams I have ever worked in intuitively did something similar to Crew Resource Managment (CRM as used in aviation, expeditions, ...) — the point is, the manager is a resource themselves if they micromanage they spread themselves too thin for when a real problem occurs — if they are not present, they waste their resource and have a team that might be used to work without management, so when a problem arises the new focus of the manager might or might not help. A manager is part of a team and a manager is a resource of the team. If your team will work better if you are gone, or collapses if you are gone, you are doing it wrong.
> action could be seen as micromanagement
Micromanagement is a certain way of doing action — the typical micromanager is someone who wants to control all the details of everything, all the time.
Granted sometimes it is beneficial for a manager to go through something with their subordinates in all the detail, so the subordinates gain some implicit understanding how you would approach the thing on a detailed level. But this should be a one off, not something you do all the time.
Also: every act could be misunderstood as something else, that is in itself the reality of working in a team.
The best teams I have ever worked in intuitively did something similar to Crew Resource Managment (CRM as used in aviation, expeditions, ...) — the point is, the manager is a resource themselves if they micromanage they spread themselves too thin for when a real problem occurs — if they are not present, they waste their resource and have a team that might be used to work without management, so when a problem arises the new focus of the manager might or might not help. A manager is part of a team and a manager is a resource of the team. If your team will work better if you are gone, or collapses if you are gone, you are doing it wrong.