The Micromanager
A micromanager wants to do your job as well as theirs. This happens for a few reasons. One typical example involves a technical person who was promoted into management.
The Formerly Technical Micromanager
Sometimes a technical person is so good at their job they wind up promoted into a totally different one. Colloquially, this is often referred to as the Peter Principle, which states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence. Employees are promoted based on success in previous jobs until they reach a level where they are no longer able to be productive, because the nature of the new job is different from the old one. This often occurs in technical fields because most companies have only a limited technical ...
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