What To Do If Your Boss Is A Micromanager

When Tina Fox was working as a regional manager in a San Diego consulting firm, she winced each morning as the dozen members of her team filtered into the office. Her boss, a vice president, kept tabs on everyone, even though they weren’t her direct reports. “Whenever someone would come in a few minutes late, she would immediately go up to them in the middle of the floor and say, ‘Why are you late? You didn’t call and let us know.’” Fox found the micromanaging painful. “We’re not talking about managing junior high students,” she says. “These were professionals making more than $100,000 a year.”