5Approval Requirements
If we developed a caricature of a micromanager, it would be the neck of a bottle with a face on it. Bottlenecks are created by micromanagers. They become a funnel with everything moving through them.
Picture a highway system with eight or ten lanes suddenly narrowing into only one lane for a toll booth. All lanes feed into one lane where vehicles stop for a transaction to occur. Forward progress is halted and then begins again slowly as vehicles pass through the toll booth. It takes a while to regain speed and momentum. Micromanagers are that toll booth. The transaction is their required approval.
Most state or local highway departments have developed a computerized system to allow vehicles that travel through toll areas ...
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