How to Use micromanage in a Sentence

micromanage

verb

• He micromanaged every detail of the budget.
• The world today works against any NFL coach who wants to micromanage.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2020
• The subsidy should not be used to micromanage the choices.
  — WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• While this might feel like micromanaging, the goal isn’t to spend precisely that much each time.
  — Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 14 Nov. 2023
• There is no need to micromanage your 401(k) but the end of the year is a good time to trim back on some of your winners and potentially add to your losers.
  — Nancy Tengler, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2019
• Give them clear goals, but don’t micromanage their process.
  — NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024
• Just be careful not to micromanage yourself in the process.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Aug. 2017
• Sure, the Pikmin were cute, but micromanaging their every move didn’t seem worth the effort.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
• No one had to micromanage the construction of lenses, retinas, and all the other parts of an eye.
  — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• Some of them are too harsh or critical, some of them micromanage and make life more difficult, and some of them are just plain boring.
  — Anna Johansson /, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2018
• Almost every leader has felt the urge to micromanage at some point.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• There was no time to micromanage the huge problems Moderna was trying to solve.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 29 May 2022
• But a cynic might argue that the Fed's job is to keep the US economy afloat and not micromanage the global economy.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 1 Aug. 2019
• Supporters say the current law micromanages the conversations had in districts and the bill allows space for schools to find a process that works for them.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
• Allowing staff to work from home, in a cafe down the road or on the other side of the planet implicitly shows that micromanaging isn’t needed.
  — Niccolo Perra, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• LeEco tried to micromanage a tech company from thousands of miles away in China.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 23 May 2017
• Most managers who micromanage express that the best way to ensure success is to take control.
  — Mark Samuel, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• Yet somewhere along the line, the NFL has decided to blatantly micromanage the replay process.
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• Genuinely wild to watch a couple of hot rich girls micromanage the social media rollout of their friend’s breakup.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 15 July 2021
• The first step is to figure out what’s behind your boss’s micromanaging tendencies.
  — Rebecca Knight, Harvard Business Review, 18 June 2024
• Her way might be trying to micromanage everything, and your way might be to have a short fuse with her micromanaging.
  — cleveland, 28 Sep. 2019
• Remote work requires a lot of trust, and that can be hard for some managers -- especially those who tend to micromanage.
  — Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 21 May 2021
• Most of us have experienced the temptation to micromanage from time to time.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• At its peak, the Ukraine Defense Fund had 30 volunteers on Slack micromanaging every step of these supply chains.
  — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
• Like many parents just trying to get to the other side of a pandemic in one piece, Iris Lowenberg-Lin doesn’t have the bandwidth to micromanage screen time for her two older kids.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• The intent of a smaller team approach is to strengthen cultural fit, not to micromanage.
  — Noelle Federico, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Teams don’t need a leader who micromanages or claims to have everything figured out.
  — Mike Ott, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• One of the easiest ways to have employees feel ownership of their jobs and of the organization as a whole is to not micromanage them.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• While leaders are right not to micromanage, being too hands-off can keep them from understanding their team.
  — Cheri Beranek, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• Who understands that the mayor and City Council are elected to set policy for the city manager to carry out, not to directly micromanage city operations.
  — East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024