Quiet Quitting & The Micromanager - Dead or Alive?

The article below was written by my friend and business partner Cliff Oxford . He is a professional. He’s seasoned. And he’s always adding value.

I love Cliff’s work because he always stokes the fire because he is real. He’s successful. He has experience - which means he has a lot of battle scars.?

Cliff’s piece is about quiet quitting or how I like to call it…sandbagging, and it has been going on for a while. One of my employee’s stuffed the desk drawer with important documents that they did not want to deal with. We found out when we cleaned out their desk once they left.

Part II of Cliff's article is about micromanaging. Again, new age versus old age. Where do you stand with regard to micromanaging? Cliff’s got some great thoughts!

Ok let’s go…don’t hesitate…JUST READ IT NOW…

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And tell me more about “quiet quitting”1 when the Labor Day holiday grew out of the Haymarket Riots in 1886.

Thousands took to the streets to demand an end to harshly supervised 12-14 hour shifts with no days off, a little different than selfishly killing off the clock at 5.01pm.?

Yes. Both are detrimental to capitalism whose real hero is actually the often maligned micro-manager who rings up results and builds iconic brands.

The king of management rhetoric is the “delegation” dream, feet propped up. Sells books and is absolutely horrible in the arena. Nothing comes to mind as more overrated than the aspirations of a delegation manager.

I realize the grind of micro-manager is as uncool and uncouth as Dennis Kucinich of presidential politics, but the management obsession of detail has built nearly every great company since the dawn of civilization.

Here is the deal - you just have to figure out what to micromanage and what to let others do. Gladly.

That’s the genius. Get this out of your head: “Let others do all the work and sit in my office all day;” it's a dangerous place to view the world.

When I walk into companies running circles around the competition, I always find the same thing: micromanagers with people skills placed all over the management team.

Mary Kay had 3 million consultants on the streets but she kept a route of customers so she could micromanage any new products before they hit the streets. Never too big or busy to micromanage.

I still remember meeting Ralph Lauren (he personally met every new vendor) walking around the shop floor, arguing with designers with 10 to 12 shirts draped over his left shoulder.

Every morning, 5am, Schultz still flips through his 2200 plus Starbucks store Morning Report on metrics from the day before.

Glad to give you an answer to the genius question - what do you micromanage? Just four: People, customers, data and design.

And you can delegate a lot more like logo colors and minor details of what food to serve at breakfast, unless you want a big hit like the chia seed pudding (personally worked with Porsche’s chef to get the blender to render the morning concoction that helps us hang on).

Enjoy your week, although I’m sure the quiet quitters started well before I finished this post. Slugs and sweatshops will kill us all, so invest in micromanagers not China or Chinaberries, poisonous to high performance.?

CliffNotes:

1. Meaning they don't leave their jobs, but instead reject the idea of "going above and beyond" in the workplace so they can focus on life.

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Thank you, Cliff Oxford

https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/cliffoxford/

Cliff Company, 1266 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30327, USA, 770-845-2625

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