Micromanagement of Staff Doesn’t Help Anyone

Thinking, responsible employees need autonomy to keep their brains healthy. But some lawyers are too busy breathing down assistants' necks and hand-holding them through every task to imagine that, if they threw them the occasional challenge, they might just rise to it, says the Assistant-at-Law, a legal secretary in Texas. She notes that constant supervision is expensive for attorneys and increases, rather than decreases, the likelihood of errors. She provides some rules to help avoid the pitfalls of micromanagement.