Control freaks don't delegate because they're afraid the people around them will not rise to the occasion.

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Greenberg was attracted to Donatos and Chipotle because they are proven winners run by entrepreneurs very much in the mold of Ray Kroc--driven, passionate control freaks.

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But it differs from that reform in one important regard: ultimately this decision does not lie with the politicians, not even with the control freaks of Tony Blair's Downing Street.

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This week, a new paper will be published in the APS journal, Psychological Science, that supports our predisposition to being control freaks, particularly when it comes to the workplace.

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That must be some die-hard IT control freaks, because the iPad seems to have taken the computing world by storm, including leading enterprises with high level security concerns, such as financial institutions.

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"If it sounds like we're control freaks, well, maybe it's because we're so committed to our users and making sure they have a quality experience with our products, " the company writes in its App Store review guidelines.

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Entrepreneurs are usually control freaks.

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Surgeons are control freaks.

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