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Podcast: Leadership Article Review Podcast
Episode: Beyond Control: Understanding the Hidden Beliefs that Fuel Micromanagement, by Jonathan H. Westover PhD
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Abstract: This article explores the psychological drivers underlying micromanagement behaviors in organizational leaders. Drawing from scholarly literature in management, leadership, and psychology, common hidden beliefs that can fuel micromanagement are identified, including needs for certainty, perfectionism, external locus of control tendencies, and distrust or control issues. The article delineates how these unconscious beliefs manifest as identifiable thought patterns and micromanaging workplace behaviors amongst leaders. Practical suggestions are then provided for how organizations and leaders can work to develop self-awareness of underlying motivations and gradually reshape unhelpful beliefs through assessment, open discussion, flexibility experiments, empowering work structures, and general workplace...