From the chess board - and beyond

I heard a good point the other day, picking up its concepts from the world of chess - a point that was so good that I have to repeat it here. In all its simplicity, it went approximately as follows:

It makes no sense to hire chess players and treat them as chess pieces.

- so to understand that when you hire excellent people (and of course you do not want to hire people if you do not think they are excellent - then you prefer yet another job interview with yet another candidate), you should give them space to be excellent, rather than start exposing them to micromanagement. As the developer of the programming language C ++, Bjarne Stroustrup, has written in a footnote in his book on the language:

 An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

And there is no reason to believe this is true for programmers only.
 Micromanagement destroys the progress of a company, one can rightly say. But on the other hand, if you absolutely insist on telling your employees that you have no confidence in them, micromanagement is a really excellent way to do it.
(Translated from Fra skakbrættet - og andre steder)