Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.
You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.
There is a fine line between constructive oversight and unconstructive meddling.
Sometimes directors feel like they have to justify that hat that they are wearing they've got on as a director, and they come in and they tweak and interfere.
There should not be a micro-managing of terminology with the Library of Congress.
I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.
Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.
I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.
I had to learn how to not be a micro-manager. Maternity leave made me do that. I just couldn't anymore.
I'm horribly hands-on, I'm afraid. I like to read every caption.
The artwork on my packaging was something I painstakingly micro-managed - for example, I treat it like a tattoo, taking into consideration the muscle structure and seeing were the line lands on the existing body.
It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which lends itself to a less than ideal film.
And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
