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Micromanagement hinders, but microunderstanding helps!
1. Micromanagement and microunderstanding are two completely different things! Because one of them hinders scaling, and the other helps đ
2. Micromanagement is when you stand behind each employee, directing and correcting their every action. It is clear that you will never be able to scale this way
3. Microunderstanding is when you understand every detail of each business process. The trick is that you do not have to monitor each employee performing these processes!
4. Because microunderstanding is only needed to drive the business process into such strict frameworks - so that each of its details is executed naturally, and a step to the left or to the right is simply impossible.
5. Then your business will spin like a well-oiled and well-oiled mechanism down to the last screw. And it will then be possible to scale it - simply by increasing the number of these screws.
6. I encountered this literally the other day when I was discussing the situation in his startup with a partner-founder. He had serious problems. And, as he himself admitted, only because his understanding of one of the areas of work was 1.5 on a 10-point scale đĄī¸
7. Therefore, at first he hoped that a specially hired manager of this area would sort everything out. Which, as usual, never happened âšī¸ And therefore now he is going to increase his understanding of this area to 10 out of 10 in order to improve the business process. And only then hire a manager who will have to monitor its compliance.
8. In other words, if you understand some area of your startup's work not 10 out of 10 - be sure that this problem will eventually come to light. The only question is - when exactly đ 0 reply
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