micromanager
Americannoun
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micromanagers
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It can be hard not to let a micromanager chip away at your confidence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Business leaders who have interacted with the deputy defense secretary describe him as an intense micromanager, poring over minutiae within contracts and supply-chain statistics to look for potential savings or bottlenecks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
"The role of a traditional niche may be more in line with a micromanager -- instructing cells, 'You can be a stem cell, but only one particular type'," explained Mann.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2025
He was the same micromanager he had always been, going through his headquarters turning off lights if a room was empty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025
Watson was a micromanager with a hand in every pot.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
This week, we’re talking about micromanagers — and how to deal with them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
It’s the kind of technology that could help those human board members transition from high-level supervisory entities to effective micromanagers.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2019
And how can you establish serious cultural value while still serving the corporate micromanagers at Disney — owners of Marvel since 2009?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
In “Office Space,” it was the micromanagers who turned a central aspiration of the American dream — white-collar work — into a fluorescent-lit nightmare.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2017
And, although this makes sense to a certain degree, we’re curious if there are really that many bad managers on the loose—the egomaniacs, the narcissists, the micromanagers, the yellers, and the list could go on.
From Forbes ● Sep. 11, 2014
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