A manager can follow all sorts of madness in the name of better management. They adopt all sorts of fads in the quest to remain relevant: Right sizing. Divestment. Agile programming. Tsun Tzu for business decisions. And so on.
There is one condition that survives all this needless poking and prodding. Success.
If you are successful you make your manager look good. I've said it before you aren't hired to do a job you are hired to make your boss look good. If you adopt that philosophy it improves your chances because every decision is win/win. Work done the right way pays off twice.
Succeeding makes your boss look good.
If he interferes with how you got to successful he risks ruining continued success. By actively changing it, his fingerprints are all over the failure. He will be accountable for wrecking the success you have given him.
That's worse than laissez-faire. Letting it be.
So it's simple. If you want to be left alone to work then be successful. You leave your manager no choice but maintain the status quo.
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