@InBoston: You have a valid point. This Article comes from the perspective of an upper management position to a Micro-Manager, it says nothing about how those who are micro-managed should respond to their supervisor or manager who is the Micro-manager.

I myself have worked under micro-managers, and each time I didn't hang around for very long. Where I have been in a position of management I trust my people to know their job and how to do it. I had one manager, great guy, who would say "bring me the solution, not the problem" so in essence it was I trust you to handle it, and just let me know what the issue was and how it was handled, and then the critique would be in the execution, where he would say this was good, that was great, but this could be improved, and then later on if he saw the improvement it would be commended.

The micro-managers, however, rarely if ever have anything good to say, it is negative, negative, negative, and you can only really work so long in a negative environment before either the Micro-manager pushes you out the door, or you leave because you can't stand it anymore.

So yeah, I would like to read more on how someone who is being micro-managed should respond. Going over their head never works, so... Some words of wisdom from that stand point would be great.