micromanager
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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
Maybe being a micromanager and a little uptight weren’t such horrible things after all.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024
He reported directly to Mr Trump, on "whatever concerned him, whatever he wanted", Cohen said, calling his ex-boss a micromanager.
From BBC • May 13, 2024
In the same vein, prosecutors elicited testimony from Hope Hicks, Trump’s former confidante, and from National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, establishing that Trump was a notorious penny-pincher and micromanager who ruled by wrath.
From Slate • May 8, 2024
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