You’ve heard a ton of jokes about micromanaging and you get it, really. Yet you have that sinking feeling that if you keep your eyes off the team for a day, things will go haywire. People will stop thinking, somehow you’ll have 3 new programming languages in production, and someone will agree to a deadline that will require acquiring Amazon.

Is this really why you got into management? Is running from meeting to meeting and constantly slack’ing your whole team truly the best manager you can aspire to be?

Let’s talk about creating a team that’s like a good iRobot: set and forget.