But when he rejoined Global Marine two years ago as chief executive, his mission was clear: Push more into deepwater and keep debt under control.
At Citi the expense problem has gotten so out of hand that Chief Executive Charles Prince has appointed an executive whose primary mission is to hunt down cost savings.
Recently, I had the chance to visit about missionary versus mercenary leadership with the senior executive of another mission-driven company in our region, Burke Alder, vice president of marketing for Lendio.
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Is the executive passionate for our specific Fab mission or could they be working at any company?
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Employees felt "part of this mission, " says Vertex Chief Executive Joshua Boger.
"We don't know how to tell the nonprofits how to best help a kid, but we can help them build the capacity of their organization to achieve that mission, " says Paul Shoemaker, executive director of SVP and former Microsoft executive.
From 2003-2005, Corvington was Executive Director of Innovation Network, a non-profit agency whose mission is to build the evaluation capacity of the non-profit sector.
"We just completed our five year plan, here" said Wendell Hicks, executive director of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, an organizations whose mission is to provide compassionate medical care to people with HIV and, and to help prevent the spread of HIV through education and testing.
Finally, the Royal Opera House is an institution trying to focus its mission, yet maintaining more than a dozen different non-executive boards, councils and committees.
The renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, a good friend of CCL, recommended a process for doing this that has made our executive team members stronger owners in the service of our clients and our mission.
Rosanne Haggerty is the president and chief executive officer of Community Solutions, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen communities to end homelessness.
"The solutions developed by Supermicro and Fusion-io bring both performance and reliability to NAND Flash, giving Supermicro customers a mission-critical advantage over their competitors, " said Jim Dawson, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Fusion-io.
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"Our mission is to 'obsolete' cigarettes, " said Craig Weiss, chief executive of NJOY, the leading US e-cigarette maker by market share.
This morning, I signed an executive order instructing the federal government to use every available federal resource in support of that mission.
This was undertaken by Chief Executive Trehan, who claims he got Thapar's 100% backing as he embarked on the rescue mission.
If SpaceX managers are able to meet "even half of their mission goals, that would be a huge success, " according to Jeff Greason, chief executive of XCOR Aerospace, a space-transportation start-up.
When Hickey took over as chief executive in 2000, after 20 years at the company, he made the flat-bubble breakthrough his personal mission.
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