My CMO is a total micro manager. Any tips for dealing with senior leadership that loves getting in the weeds?

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Usually micromanaging is a trust thing. There are maybe ten different ways for you to overcome this. Over-communicating. Delivering on metrics. Focusing on outcomes. Restating the brief in most interactions. Showing you care about the same things he cares about. Bringing him/her into the creative process early as a real partner. Until you find the best way to bulletproof your work from his insecurities, the micromanaging will continue. This will require some diagnosis on your part.

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Haha, yeah. The old adage is true, people don’t leave a bad company, they leave a bad manager. NO one loves a micromanager. Often because of the reasons you listed above.

Ideally, you’d gain your managers trust and they’d become less and less shitty. The easiest way to deal this is to come to the realization that over communication is just part of the gig.

In a previous role, I had an extreme micromanager, and I got to point where I just BCCed her on every email I sent lol.

Have you sat down with them to discuss where roles start and stop?

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