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<blockquote data-quote="hubrat" data-source="post: 784070" data-attributes="member: 869"><p>Selections from: http://www.softpanorama.org/index.shtml</p><p></p><p>"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."</p><p>Winston Churchill</p><p></p><p>"Micromanagers are generally are characterized as people with weakened self-esteem, injured narcissism and paranoid tendencies. They are preoccupied with power."</p><p></p><p>"Note 1: Paranoid incompetent micromanagers (PIMM), who successfully combine tight control of minute details/procedures used in performing assignments with toxic incompetence are often called "control freaks" (CF)."</p><p></p><p>"Micromanagement is perversion of management and it is important to understand that for some unknown reason it is more common among female managers then man. The litmus test of micromanagement is that normal, appropriate activities such as monitoring, reporting, and requiring approvals are exaggerated to the extent that they convert into its opposites. monitoring into pretty, detailed control of every action, reporting into requests for reports with frequency and detail that leave little time for anything else, etc. Every such measure is perverted and converted into its opposite. Any initiative not coming form PIMM is squashed... "</p><p></p><p>"They are really different and cannot be measured by the same standard as ordinary people. They are more like professional actors then real humans: everything is fake and imitated. Psychopaths succeed in conventional society in large measure because few of us grasp that they are fundamentally different from ourselves. They are more like professional actors then real humans: never forget about that.</p><p>We assume that they, too, care about other people's feelings. This makes it easier for them to "play" us. Although they lack empathy, they develop a professional actor's expertise in evoking ours. While they don't care about us, "they have an element of emotional intelligence, of being able to see our emotions more or less clearly and manipulate them," says Michael Maccoby, a psychotherapist who has consulted for major corporations. Don't fall into this trap. Ignore attempts to invoke pity, sympathy or similar emotions. This is all a game. "</p><p></p><p>*The Softpanorama site is concerned with IT corps, but much of it makes sense here and definitely helps shed a little light and humor on this behavior. Puts it in a better perspective for me anyway. Sorry for the long posts only if they're not helpful...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hubrat, post: 784070, member: 869"] Selections from: http://www.softpanorama.org/index.shtml "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." Winston Churchill "Micromanagers are generally are characterized as people with weakened self-esteem, injured narcissism and paranoid tendencies. They are preoccupied with power." "Note 1: Paranoid incompetent micromanagers (PIMM), who successfully combine tight control of minute details/procedures used in performing assignments with toxic incompetence are often called "control freaks" (CF)." "Micromanagement is perversion of management and it is important to understand that for some unknown reason it is more common among female managers then man. The litmus test of micromanagement is that normal, appropriate activities such as monitoring, reporting, and requiring approvals are exaggerated to the extent that they convert into its opposites. monitoring into pretty, detailed control of every action, reporting into requests for reports with frequency and detail that leave little time for anything else, etc. Every such measure is perverted and converted into its opposite. Any initiative not coming form PIMM is squashed... " "They are really different and cannot be measured by the same standard as ordinary people. They are more like professional actors then real humans: everything is fake and imitated. Psychopaths succeed in conventional society in large measure because few of us grasp that they are fundamentally different from ourselves. They are more like professional actors then real humans: never forget about that. We assume that they, too, care about other people's feelings. This makes it easier for them to "play" us. Although they lack empathy, they develop a professional actor's expertise in evoking ours. While they don't care about us, "they have an element of emotional intelligence, of being able to see our emotions more or less clearly and manipulate them," says Michael Maccoby, a psychotherapist who has consulted for major corporations. Don't fall into this trap. Ignore attempts to invoke pity, sympathy or similar emotions. This is all a game. " *The Softpanorama site is concerned with IT corps, but much of it makes sense here and definitely helps shed a little light and humor on this behavior. Puts it in a better perspective for me anyway. Sorry for the long posts only if they're not helpful... [/QUOTE]
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