> I will still interrupt my coworkers who are working on the wrong thing.
How common is this, how can you tell, and why were they working on it in the first place? How often do you interrupt them when they were working on the right thing, as an unfortunate side effect?
I've wasted time and energy on dead ends and it is one of the most frustrating things, even when it was understandable, sanctioned, and a desired exploration of the problem space. I'm all for trying to avoid unnecessary waste.
> I understand that makes me a micro-manager;
That this is your understanding would concern me greatly, though. I'd rather be macromanaged - have the big picture explained to me, in a way that I can understand and buy into, that I can then approach in the ways that best suits my own talents and abilities. Where I can contribute my own insights and ideas to the collaboration, where I don't start working on the wrong shit in the first place.
Not just... along for the ride, like floatsam, being told I've been doing it wrong a hundred times and do it this other way because I've been told to, without any deeper insight to correct the underlying problem. Or even worse, without any real underlying problem in need of actual correction.