However, neither was there any Antonio Conte-style micro management.

"My read is he was very unhappy about, as Gates and Panetta both expressed, the micro management from the White House, a small group of people making all these decisions," Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, told Reuters, referring to Obama's two previous defense chiefs.

He condemned the "totalitarian micro management" from "more and more senior executives".

Nevertheless, HotS remains a brutal test of micro management skills, and without deft use of hot keys you're never going to keep track of all your units or compete with better players.

We have an ongoing video series, “Micro Management Stories,” that runs as part of the On Leadership section here at the Washington Post.