He's a big-picture guy, but he's been in a lot of those hard meetings.

"Lewie was a brilliant big-picture guy," says Andy Stone.

Now a big-picture guy is required to co-ordinate this body of data.

"He's the big-picture guy," one of the geologists told me.

People want a big-picture guy.

"You're strictly a big-picture guy now."

But Gilman is a big-picture guy.

He is in a position to know which players respond best to which stimuli, whether they are detail men or big-picture guys.

As they sweat in the glare of angry investors and indignant politicians, the big-picture guys are focusing intensely on the details.

Parcells, 55, is the front man, the big-picture guy, the shaper-upper, the spokesman, the boss.