Sentence examples for micromanager from inspiring English sources

It is bound to be both romantic and poignant, surveying the car industry's impact on American life during Detroit's golden age.Mr Wolfson travels too much in pursuit of treasure and pleasure to be a micromanager.

Like Jobs, Amazon's boss is a demanding taskmaster and micromanager who does not suffer fools gladly.

Padoan was expected to have a tempering effect on Renzi, but Renzi is a notorious micromanager.

"Mayor Giuliani was a micromanager — he wanted to be involved in the minutest details," Bratton said recently.

"The question is, is he such a micromanager that he'd want to interfere with everything in the country?

He would demand of his executives, "Why scratch like a chicken when you can roar like a lion?" He was a micromanager before the word had become a cliché.

But, given that this was not, as in most auto-industry scandals, a case of a defective part but rather a deliberate corporate effort to deceive consumers and regulators, it was impossible for him to stay on, particularly given his reputation as a hands-on, technically adept micromanager: he either did know or should have known, and, in either case, he has to bear the blame.

During the final day and night of negotiations, Bremer yielded control — a rare moment for an official who has been described as a micromanager — and for eight hours became a silent observer, allowing the Iraqis to work out the unavoidable conflicts between majority rule and minority rights.

The voluminous prison archive survived to condemn him — this micromanager hadn't thought to destroy it when he fled the Vietnamese Army.

A brilliant micromanager and leader of team anxiety, she never met a project she didn't want to take over.

Stratemeyer was a micromanager.