The Walt Disney comparison is particularly apt: popular showman and control freak, brilliant but menacing.
Rodgers, a star of the 1980s, who is such a snorting-bull control freak that he's become a self-caricature.
These days Labour has cast aside the old control freak tendencies associated with its tenure of Millbank Tower.
The control freak's desire to be successful is strong, but it comes with a lot of self-inflicted pressure.
Mathile admits that he was once an ineffective chief executive because he was too much of a control freak.
The Streisand that emerges is an odd control freak, a damaged, needy and out-of-touch woman and yet very human.
When I began my career, I was a complete and total control freak.
When Cran finally hired her team, she confessed about her control freak tendencies.
Britain's system, for all its reforms, allows a prime minister to smile and smile and still be a control freak.
If they really want to punish the control freak in Mr Blair, let them choose the competent Tory candidate, Steven Norris.
But there's always one control freak who wants to diagram elaborate plays.
For the second day running, the Labour leadership had to put up with a string of attacks on its economic policies and "control freak" tendencies.
For a control freak like Jobs, that's not a pleasant situation.
"I loved things, was materialistic and a control freak, " Power says.
Easier said than done, considering Stewart's reputation as a control freak.
Labour-supporting pop music entrepreneur Alan McGee has likened the party to Big Brother in George Orwell's novel 1984 and accused Tony Blair of being "a control freak".
More than a quarter of a century on, Mr Ecevit is feared within his party (now named the Democratic Left) as a control freak who delegates little responsibility.
Hitters stepping out of the box between every pitch, pitchers taking too much time, and control freak managers blowing through four or five relievers during the last three innings.
Mr Jobs had a reputation as a control freak, and his critics complained that the products and systems he designed were closed and inflexible, in the name of greater ease of use.
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And Gordon far from trying to be a control freak has actually delegated much more than Tony Blair did to Cabinet committees and has been willing simply to go along with those decisions.
Katie Taylor, the CEO of hotel brand Four Seasons, recently admitted to me that she is a bit of a control freak, but for the good of her and everyone around her, she tries to delegate.
Her control-freak ways have helped ensure her an income of millions of dollars, even if her acting services end up in less demand in Hollywood, where a star's aging is the most unforgivable of sins.
She emerged on the list in 2008, when she gained total control of the company after her husband, Ken, died in a freak construction accident at their Wisconsin home.
Freak occurrences, no matter how unlikely, are scary because we have no control over them.
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