The besetting vice of high office is the temptation to micromanage, to take direct control of a small, concrete, easily understood subsidiary operation and start issuing orders, to the detriment of the chain of command (and the neglect of the big picture). The reason micromanagement is a vice is that it's a temptation to self indulgence: it's too easy to get carried away. Taking on a low-level coordinating role while retaining the full executive authority in fiscal responsibilities of senior rank is like playing a game you've mastered on the lowest difficulty level.
I just hits the spot after some of the things I've had to deal with in the last few months.
This Dilbert comic from closing on 24 years ago is also fitting.
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