Ted Audio Collective. and feeling like someone was watching your every move.

And then of course, the moment you're in charge of something that depends on other people,

you do exactly the same thing.

Yep, I've experienced that too. Micro managing is so hard to resist.

So how can we stop doing it?

Welcome to the Ted Business Podcast. I'm your host, Maduba Akenola. In today's

talk from Ted at BCG Toronto in 2018, Chee Huang illuminates the downsides of micromanaging and the upside of

giving people around you a greater sense of control. And if your boss is a micromanager, it just might help you understand

how to work better with them. Chee is the co-founder and CEO of Boxed.com, an online and mobile retailer that direct delivers bulk-sized

packages. He started this company in his parents garage and it now has revenue of

over $100 million dollars.

He's also hilarious.

So enjoy how he tells the story of micromanagement

through his own mistakes and listen for how he sums up the antidote to micromanagement in a single word.

Hey, it's Adam Grant, host of the TED Podcast Work Life.

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