detail man

“He is a detail man,” Bryant said, “and a brilliant enabler,” who sees the big picture, but is happy to talk about the proper location of waste bins.

The Post once called him a “quiet manager, a detail man who some employees say appears to feel more comfortable with computer printouts than with his colleagues.”

Within the White House, a reporter for The Washington Post wrote in 1988, Mr. Duberstein was regarded as the “key detail man, the behind-the-scene choreographer whose actions were increasingly vital for a president renowned as a generalist.”

As Dunn points out, he was a detail man, not a big thinker like his uncle.

Mr. Vorse was the detail man, he said.