micromanager
Americannoun
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It can be hard not to let a micromanager chip away at your confidence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Analysts have called Syrskiy a micromanager who prefers top-down decision-making to the horizontal structures promoted by today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization militaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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
Watson was a micromanager with a hand in every pot.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
A poll of MarketWatch followers on X found that 75% have worked for a micromanager, with one commenter saying: “They say they hate micromanagers yet aren’t self-aware to realize they are a micromanager.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Lots of people have worked for micromanagers at one point or another, but this boss took lack of trust to a new and deeply paranoid level:
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018
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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