Mat Kearney

I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. 'Air I Breathe' is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don't have answers for it.

American Musician

Jeanne Shaheen

We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.

American Politician

Ron Williams

The federal government should encourage rather than micromanage market reform in all 50 states. Since health care is local, private-sector innovation in conjunction with state-level reform of the individual and small-group markets is a better approach.

American Businessman

Kat Timpf

Throughout his career, Bloomberg has repeatedly shown blatant disrespect for individual rights and civil liberties. The first thing that comes to mind is probably the way he tried to micromanage New Yorkers' food choices during his time as mayor.

American Writer

James Murphy

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.

Jennifer Konner

It is very hard work, but I am a big believer in not micromanaging; I hire really, really talented people and trust them to do their jobs.

American Director

Adam Hamilton

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

American Clergyman

Helen Clark

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

New Zealander Statesman

Mark Parker

I'm not a micromanager. I don't believe in that.

Christine Quinn

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

Implies distrust or lack of confidence in someone's ability to handle tasks.

Negative Implication

Often used in job environments where managers exercise excessive control over employees' tasks.

Workplace Context

Can cause frustration and stress among those being overly supervised.

Emotional Stress

 is that by triggering eye-building subroutines in the physiological software of the body, you can very easily tell it to build a complex organ. And this is important for our biomedicine, because we don't know how to micromanage the construction of an eye. I think it's going to be a really long time

Michael Levin: The...

 I'm going to help you out a little. Yeah. The point of showing this is that when people start to go to Mars, they're not going to be able to keep calling in and be micromanaged the way people on a space station are. They're going to have to be independent. So even though they're up there,

The living tech we need...

 We teach whooping cranes to migrate south for the winter behind little ultra-light airplanes. We're out there feeding plague vaccine to ferrets. We monitor pygmy rabbits with drones. So we've gone from annihilating species to micromanaging the survival of a lot of species

The strange story of the...

 we really cannot think about reengineering it, micromanaging it. We really have to completely reimagine it. It's like going from ox carts to the airplane. Even the infrastructure has to change. Everything has to change. We need to go from lectures on the blackboard

Anant Agarwal: Why...

 unless the parent is protecting and preventing at every turn and hovering over every happening, and micromanaging every moment, and steering their kid towards some small subset of colleges and careers. When we raise kids this way, and I'll say we,

How to Raise Successful...

 I think the first way that people traditionally think about anxiety is chronic anxiety. We are still in the midst of a pandemic. People are anxious. Some others might think of anxiety in terms of their personality, you know, their micromanagers,

Valerie Purdie-Greenaway:...

 is one billion dollars a year, you drown everything. It's not simply corruption and waste that you create; you essentially replace the priorities of the Afghan government, the elected Afghan government, with the micromanaging tendencies

Rory Stewart: Time to...

 Well we're jazz musicians, so stereotypically we don't have a great relationship to finance. Anyway, I just wanted to sort of point out the way that we handle it. And the other dynamic of it is that we don't micromanage in jazz.

Stefon Harris: There are...

 but he's not a micromanager. He has sent us here as his change agents, and we must stop making excuses and using him. That means that if you're a teacher, go to school and give your students the best.

The role of faith and...

 What I'm really here to do today is talk to you about micromanagement and what I learned about micromanagement by being a micromanager over the last few years of my life.

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