Working with influencers can be like herding cats at times, Odden said. (toprankblog.com)
However, if you are going to take the action of herding cats quite literally, it's really a very easy thing to do. (animalbehaviorcollege.com)
But getting a swarm of microbes to work together can be as hard as herding cats; cells in a given population tend to work at cross purposes. (sciencemag.org)