Don't sweat the small stuff

Came across an article today which I felt rang close to heart. As leaders, sometimes we end up micro-managing, that in itself is not a bad thing, as it shows that you do have some grasp on how the ground works, but most of the time it is just a grossly inefficient way to run things.

Quoting from this article by David Lyman: 90 percent of my work requires concept solutions, not the details of the actual answer. I have a staff to do that

The remaining 10 percent of course as mentioned in his article refers to crunching the numbers. While working this way is of course ideal, in many lines of work where people move from one position to the next higher one in barely the blink of an eye, sometimes they end up ill-equipped to fulfill that 90 percent. Lack of basic knowledge, etc have led to a generation of leaders who would take piecemeal the information from the people below them without questioning. Now that indeed leads to a very dangerous scenario where misinterpretations perpetuates itself until the organisation as a whole fails in its task.

As we carry out our daily tasks, let us not forget some of our basic ground work.