It looks as if knowing a chief executive disrupts the ability to judge his performance.
Granted, not every former executive has the ability, the desire or the luck to start a successful business.
FORBES: Out-of-Work Execs: Start a Company, Create Jobs, Lead a Comeback
It's the Executive Branch's ability to keep sensitive information out of civil litigation in the courts.
It is hard to blame any of this on Mr Simmons, a bright executive with a rare ability to be candid.
In an as yet unpublished study, Dr. Black and colleagues found that 26 compulsive shoppers had similar executive function (the ability to plan, organize, reason and anticipate consequences) as 32 control subjects.
"The issue here is about after-the-fact internal documents that have to do with the executive branch's ability to operate appropriately and independently in response to congressional investigations and media inquiries, " Carney said.
An IPO will also test the ability of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, 27 years old, to manage a global company whose financial performance will be scrutinized by investors.
An IPO will also test the ability of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, age 27, to manage a global company whose financial performance will be scrutinized every three months by investors.
And I also look forward to working with Congress, as our national security rests on the ability of the executive and legislative branches of our government to work as a team.
The outcome of the report is set to raise further questions about both the future of G4S Chief Executive Nick Buckles and the ability of the U.K.-based company to secure future lucrative outsourcing contracts.
Another area doctors will look at is called "executive function, " or the ability to incorporate many different thoughts all at the same time.
Able UK eventually won the contract, says Peter Stephenson, its chief executive, precisely because of its ability to dispose of the ship properly.
On June 28, 2005, the President issued Executive Order 13382 that, inter alia, further amended Executive Order 12938 to improve our ability to combat proliferation.
If accepted, they would fundamentally re-cast the entire civil justice system in favour of the government, badly undermining the Courts' ability to hold the Executive to account.
Americans may not be as worried as Britons about the legality of the war, but the House of Commons is likely to watch with envy their representatives' ability to hold the executive to account.
"With the concerns that public expenditure is declining significantly, which would then limit the ability of the Housing Executive to maintain and improve its housing stock, private money would fill that gap, " Mr Hoodless said.
This gave me the ability to find an executive position with flexibility and autonomy, which helped ease the burden of guilt and pain when I first left my baby boy -- and later my baby girl -- to go back to work full time.
Back in 1994, for instance, Intel CEO Andy Grove was far less wary of the Internet's ability to bring a chief executive to his knees.
Graham Stewart, the company's chief executive said Faroe has "demonstrated its ability to deliver solid value for shareholders" by the "strengthening of its reserves and production base".
Back in 1994, for instance, Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) CEO Andy Grove was far less wary of the Internet's ability to bring a chief executive to his knees.
This showed, in complete contrast to the government's almost untrammelled power at Westminster, the more even balance between the powers of the Scottish executive and its Parliament, and the ability of backbenchers to make progress with private members' bills.
Later this spring, insurance company Aflac will give its investors the ability to have a voice in its executive compensation packages.
Later this spring, insurance company Aflac (nyse: AFL - news - people ) will give its investors the ability to have a voice in its executive compensation packages.
They added that the plan to make Mr Glasenberg the chief executive of the merged business put at risk the ability to retain other senior managers who, in the original deal, were to become directors of the new company.
NeoPhotonics Chief Executive Tim Jenks declined to comment on the company's ability to weather the aftershocks of the telecom meltdown.
Children with good "executive function" skills, including self-control and the ability to focus on tasks, tend to be more skillful liars, Dr. Talwar says.
The timely formation of the government will make it possible to avoid uncertainty in the structures of federal executive authority and consequently to support the state apparatus's ability to work and preserve the speed set for reforms, including within the framework of administrative reform that has begun.
Perhaps the most important is that, due in good part to the demise of Executive Life and Mutual Benefit, several rating agencies now scrutinise the ability of life insurers to meet their claims.
Her ability to toe the line between fashion lover and ambitious executive is just one of the many ways that Mayer will transform perceptions of what it means to be a woman CEO today.
Non-executives often remained a minority on their board, but their ability to act as a check and balance on the chief executive increased significantly, thanks to proposals in a series of reports written by knighted worthies three company bosses (Sir Adrian Cadbury, Sir Richard Greenbury, Sir Ronald Hampel) and a fund manager (Sir Paul Myners).
ECONOMIST: America has Sarbanes-Oxley. Britain has Derek Higgs
应用推荐