Ask HN: Articles on neg. effects of high-stress deadlines and micromanagement?

5 points by MrWiffles ↗ HN
In preparation for a meeting with my team and management tomorrow morning, I'm looking for (beefy) articles by well-known, respected people/publications that I can use to back up a point I intend to make: that constant demands for progress and/or status "updates", multiple daily meetings for "progress reports" and super-tight deadlines harm productivity, and may be forms of micromanagement.

Some quick Googling shows some basic, cursory-overview stuff, along with tons of linkbait "articles" by HR/recruiter trash websites (e.g. LinkedIn, indeed, etc.), but I was hoping for something with more substance and credibility, and I'm not seeing that for some reason.

Are there any well-known articles or research papers about this out there (that I'm obviously not aware of)? I'm just looking for something I can link to and say "here's the proof" when I tell them they're micromanaging and not only harming our immediate productivity, but also our long-term sustainability via the acute pressure being created right now.

Thanks for your help!

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Forget about it. The management only cares about money.
My opinion: Don't do it.

You will be shooting yourself in the foot. Start looking for another job instead.

> [...] Start looking for another job instead.

I hate to say it, but you might be right here. There's other business things happening behind the scenes too, so another reason looming...