Micromanagement – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Micromanagement has nothing to do with caring about an employee. However, it’s important to review the different phases of a business and the professional experience of an employee - along with the work environment. What is Micromanagement? According to Wikipedia’s sources : In business management, micromanagement is a management style whereby a manager closely observes and/or controls the work of his/her subordinates or employees. Micromanagement is generally considered to have a negative connotation, but it is still commonly observed as an accepted management style world-wide. Note the contradictory statement here. [caption id="attachment_12883" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Image from www.dilbert.com[/caption] Micromanagement is considered… Continue Reading

Start a WordCamp in Your City

According to my notes from the past 3 years I've seen many WordCamp organizers getting nervous and exhausted from organizing a WordCamp. Often the next WordCamp is organized by other community people and the main reason is actually the bad taste in mouth from organizing the previous event. I tend to disagree with this and I'm writing a counter-post to what my friend Kovshenin wrote for WordCamp Russia :) I'm in the organizer committee for WordCamp Sofia for a second year and I'll explain why I love to be in the WordCamp organization group. WordCamps are fun The most important… Continue Reading