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- Giving an assignment, then telling the employee how to do every single part of it
- Failing to set and maintain clear priorities, so employees waste time working on things that don’t matter
- Failing to correct performance issues early
- Failing to provide adequate training and tools
- Excess overhead in the form of status reports, status update meetings, team meetings, town halls, etc.
- Requiring a level of polish in written materials beyond what’s needed for the audience
- Writing excessively long emails that they expect people to read
- Failure to make decisions conclusively, instead repeatedly reevaluating the same question
- Reorgs
- Failing to make connections between different people working on the same thing, or actively trying to keep them from collaborating
- Insisting on being present for every meeting
- Taking on engineering/product deliverables themselves that they don’t have time to complete
- Insisting on making too many decisions themselves and not delegating