Focus on results instead of control . Indies have climbed Maslow's pyramid. They like self-actualization. They work best when they work for that internal sense of contribution. Traditional bosses need control as a tool.
Indies feel that as claustrophobia - it diminishes the sense of contribution.
Indies left the control-oriented corporate environments long ago. Peter Meyer speaks and writes on management issues from Scotts Valley, California. Meyer responds to his E-mail. In conversation with the author, Dayton, Ohio, April 24, 1998. The people used here as examples are real Indies, but these are not their real names.